Face it, it's your job to make things work so I can do my job.
No shit. We are support staff, I know this. What you don't know is the work required to make applications work in a windows environment. There is so much work, and we are often so short on resources, that by working with the IT dept to find something that we know will integrate well in our environment you save us a ton of time and energy, not to mentioned the company's resources. Which, happens to help you do your job better btw.
But please, continue to work against IT in your business. That's the fast track to productivity, let me tell you.
IT should be a reactive service. Ideally there would be more communication than just "please install this", maybe something more like, "we need this service and think this would provide it". But frankly I'm tired of IT thinking they know more about my job, and what I need, than I do.
And we're tired of being given software that's already been bought, being told it should do X when in fact it does ( x/10 ) due to vendor lies, and being told to fix it.
IT should be consulted from start to finish when purchasing ANYTHING IT related. IT depts should be proactive in this and all IT related projects.
If your current IT environment isn't capable of supporting my needs then fix it.
You must be a manager. There are realities that no one wants to hear; There are 20 different things people want from IT, and we are given a fraction of the resources we need to do half of them. We do what we can, but often times we are simply under resourced and no one wants to provide the funds to fix it.
It boils down to this; You either work *with* your IT dept, or against it. You work against it, it'll come back to bite you in the ass.
No shit; I'm surprised this hasn't been the case all along. Every IT dept I've been in has been treated by the employer as a reactive service. Most of the time, we are given something to install. Not asked if it'll fit in our current IT environment, but given and asked how soon it can be installed.
USB thumb drives are an on going headache, and an attack vector on top of that. I'm forced to wonder how serious any of these issues would be if we didn't live in a windows centric world.
There is no easy solution to this problem; You either have people who believe in personal integrity ( what you do when nobody would ever know ), and you have those who don't. Those of us that do will always follow our own code; Policies won't help us. Those that don't still won't, the policies won't help them either.
The problem isn't necessarily dust on the panels, but dust in the atmosphere. Only reliable way I can think of to overcome that problem would be nuclear power, or very large batteries.
Except that would be Battlestar Galactica with Borg in place of the Cylons...
Well yes, sorta. Believe it or not, there was more of a centralized organization in BG than I would like in my revision of ST. I'm thinking a mix of the maque along with a generous helping of survival. Society in the ST universe is, for almost all of the average people, a paradise. Utopia, for lack of a better word. While that may be the goal, it's boring from a TV standpoint. There's no real pressing problem for the human race, they've mastered everything.
In my version, there is a very pressing problem for most of the human race. That problem of course being that they are borg. I mean I'd start the first show off from where the borg take over the earth ( except in my version, Riker doesn't blow up the ship; Data's attempt to put the Borg to sleep fails ), and it'd just go down hill from there for the first few seasons. There'd be a mutiny ( guess who ), and the crew wouldn't even know it's possible to save those already assimilated until the end of season two, where we'd start heading on an emotional upswing again.
That's how I'd do it, but then I'm somewhat obsessed with this idea ( in case you missed it ):D.
Funny thing is, I think all of that actually happened. Or perhaps you knew that and were directly referencing the TNG episode "Parallels." (God, I sound like a geek. Wait a minute. ..)
Remember the evil, hairy Riker who tries to blow up Worf's shuttle before he can pass through the temporal anomaly? What you described sounds exactly like what he went through. Would have been cool to actually see the events that drove him to that end.
Which is exactly what got me started thinking. Deep down, I am an optimist, so the "good guy" always has to win, but there's a price for everything. The irony of Riker getting the one thing in the universe that he wanted only be denying himself that one thing ( ie: death ) amuses me to no end .
Eh, I think that's still just a rehash of the series. They have some valid points, but fail to address the serious issue with the Trek universe.
And that issue is this; We geeks like our stories. Love them, actually. The longer and deeper it is, the more we eat it up. Which is why a story like DS9 took off, and why a shallow plot like Voyager failed ( well, characters help tank that one too ). I've actually thought a lot about this, and yes I realize that classifies me as GEEEK. I'm ok with that. Trek has a very good base, a lot of potential. But they never actually realize it. Here's how I would have done it;
Remember in TNG, when the borg were about to consume Earth? I would have used that finally to end the series. Several seasons worth of fighting leading up to the loss of Earth, the center of the Federation. From this, i would have spawned a new series focusing mainly on Riker, the other members of the Enterprise and indeed the Federation being spread to the winds after the Borg core them. It would have been focused on trying to stay alive initially, and while the show would never really lose that flavor, it would grow to focus on Riker's mission to drive the Borg from Earth and save what life he could. Given what he's up against, we could take on a dirtier, more grungy atmosphere. Startfleet crews doing whatever they had to to survive, whatever ships are left over going rogue, that kind of thing. We finally FINALLY get to see the seedy underside of humanity in the future, down to them fighting like animals at times for precious few resources ( I'd dig the irony of a huge starship battle over a minuscule amount of water ). A chance to FULLY explore the star trek universe, not just the sunshine and flowers version of it.
I'd have Riker grow cold and somewhat evil ( and if that means Troi has to bite it, so be it. Possibly in the first episode ), to the point where the viewer isn't really voting for the protagonist. As he gets closer and closer to his goal, he becomes more and more focused until that's all he sees. Finally, in the finale of the series, he wins back Earth and saves it's people, but only by sacrificing himself to do it.
Jean-luc could live or die, it'd be up to the plot.
Anyway, that's the idea I had. I think it would have been an awesome series to watch.
have you used vista? it's a far better user experience than windows XP. if they did put some DRM related stuff in there, I haven't noticed, nor will 99.99% of its userbase.
Jesus, have *you* used vista? The user intended user experience could be orgasmic, but I'll be damned if I can get the thing stable given the state of drivers for my vista approved hardware.
In a year it may be better than XP ( and at best, marginally so ), but right now it's hit and miss.
There's a reason a T1 line still costs $600+/month.
Ya, and it has nothing to do with the reasons you described. T1s and other lines with an SLA are so expensive because of their guaranteed uptime ( See the afore mentioned SLA ). I get 99.999999 uptime guaranteed from the company delivering it to me. That kind of up time is hellishly expensive.
Business grade dsl and cable connections let you run whatever you want over them; but they aren't guaranteed with that kind of up time, and their price reflects that.
Ok, but here's the counter argument; MythTV and TiVo are two completely different products, each serving different needs. So while yes, myth does end up more expensive, you get far more for your money.
In my specific case, I couldn't live without MythVideo. I have tons of videos stored on the thing, all accessible from the click of a button. Instead of having to hunt down the DVD, plop it into the machine and navigate the fucking ads and menus, I just click a button and watch the video. Last I heard, TiVo can't do that.
It's a difference of audience. Diebold sells to the government, who hates it when the public points out that it's getting raped by a private contractor.
MS is aimed at corporations, who are top heavy with clueless idiots. You can point out the obvious to them, and they will blindly keep doing whatever it is they were doing, even if it tanks the company. Afterwards, they will be hired by another company to do the exact same thing over again, only they will get paid WAAAAY more this time around.
The memory is fuzzy, but it has something to do with the then-government promising to make Columbus "A very important person" and a few other titles which would have entitled him to a heathly portion of the new world trade revenue. Once he died ( in disgrace ), the crown figured they could go back on those promises. His sons persued the case, making some significant strides initially, but tying up the rest in the courts for a few hundred years.
I don't remember what the outcome was. However, in my mind, the only ones that won would have been the lawyers.
This isn't really relevant, but Columbus's family ( yes, 1492 and all that ) didn't finally finish their court cases with the spanish government until towards the end of the 17th century.
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Face it, it's your job to make things work so I can do my job.
No shit. We are support staff, I know this. What you don't know is the work required to make applications work in a windows environment. There is so much work, and we are often so short on resources, that by working with the IT dept to find something that we know will integrate well in our environment you save us a ton of time and energy, not to mentioned the company's resources. Which, happens to help you do your job better btw.
But please, continue to work against IT in your business. That's the fast track to productivity, let me tell you.
IT should be a reactive service. Ideally there would be more communication than just "please install this", maybe something more like, "we need this service and think this would provide it". But frankly I'm tired of IT thinking they know more about my job, and what I need, than I do.
And we're tired of being given software that's already been bought, being told it should do X when in fact it does ( x/10 ) due to vendor lies, and being told to fix it.
IT should be consulted from start to finish when purchasing ANYTHING IT related. IT depts should be proactive in this and all IT related projects.
If your current IT environment isn't capable of supporting my needs then fix it.
You must be a manager. There are realities that no one wants to hear; There are 20 different things people want from IT, and we are given a fraction of the resources we need to do half of them. We do what we can, but often times we are simply under resourced and no one wants to provide the funds to fix it.
It boils down to this; You either work *with* your IT dept, or against it. You work against it, it'll come back to bite you in the ass.
No shit; I'm surprised this hasn't been the case all along. Every IT dept I've been in has been treated by the employer as a reactive service. Most of the time, we are given something to install. Not asked if it'll fit in our current IT environment, but given and asked how soon it can be installed.
USB thumb drives are an on going headache, and an attack vector on top of that. I'm forced to wonder how serious any of these issues would be if we didn't live in a windows centric world.
There is no easy solution to this problem; You either have people who believe in personal integrity ( what you do when nobody would ever know ), and you have those who don't. Those of us that do will always follow our own code; Policies won't help us. Those that don't still won't, the policies won't help them either.
About 2 cubic LOC ( library of Congress ).
1H and 16O?
Wouldn't that be really really reactive?
The problem isn't necessarily dust on the panels, but dust in the atmosphere. Only reliable way I can think of to overcome that problem would be nuclear power, or very large batteries.
Except that would be Battlestar Galactica with Borg in place of the Cylons...
:D.
Well yes, sorta. Believe it or not, there was more of a centralized organization in BG than I would like in my revision of ST. I'm thinking a mix of the maque along with a generous helping of survival. Society in the ST universe is, for almost all of the average people, a paradise. Utopia, for lack of a better word. While that may be the goal, it's boring from a TV standpoint. There's no real pressing problem for the human race, they've mastered everything.
In my version, there is a very pressing problem for most of the human race. That problem of course being that they are borg. I mean I'd start the first show off from where the borg take over the earth ( except in my version, Riker doesn't blow up the ship; Data's attempt to put the Borg to sleep fails ), and it'd just go down hill from there for the first few seasons. There'd be a mutiny ( guess who ), and the crew wouldn't even know it's possible to save those already assimilated until the end of season two, where we'd start heading on an emotional upswing again.
That's how I'd do it, but then I'm somewhat obsessed with this idea ( in case you missed it )
Funny thing is, I think all of that actually happened. Or perhaps you knew that and were directly referencing the TNG episode "Parallels." (God, I sound like a geek. Wait a minute. . .)
Remember the evil, hairy Riker who tries to blow up Worf's shuttle before he can pass through the temporal anomaly? What you described sounds exactly like what he went through. Would have been cool to actually see the events that drove him to that end.
Which is exactly what got me started thinking. Deep down, I am an optimist, so the "good guy" always has to win, but there's a price for everything. The irony of Riker getting the one thing in the universe that he wanted only be denying himself that one thing ( ie: death ) amuses me to no end .
Eh, I think that's still just a rehash of the series. They have some valid points, but fail to address the serious issue with the Trek universe.
And that issue is this; We geeks like our stories. Love them, actually. The longer and deeper it is, the more we eat it up. Which is why a story like DS9 took off, and why a shallow plot like Voyager failed ( well, characters help tank that one too ). I've actually thought a lot about this, and yes I realize that classifies me as GEEEK. I'm ok with that. Trek has a very good base, a lot of potential. But they never actually realize it. Here's how I would have done it;
Remember in TNG, when the borg were about to consume Earth? I would have used that finally to end the series. Several seasons worth of fighting leading up to the loss of Earth, the center of the Federation. From this, i would have spawned a new series focusing mainly on Riker, the other members of the Enterprise and indeed the Federation being spread to the winds after the Borg core them. It would have been focused on trying to stay alive initially, and while the show would never really lose that flavor, it would grow to focus on Riker's mission to drive the Borg from Earth and save what life he could. Given what he's up against, we could take on a dirtier, more grungy atmosphere. Startfleet crews doing whatever they had to to survive, whatever ships are left over going rogue, that kind of thing. We finally FINALLY get to see the seedy underside of humanity in the future, down to them fighting like animals at times for precious few resources ( I'd dig the irony of a huge starship battle over a minuscule amount of water ). A chance to FULLY explore the star trek universe, not just the sunshine and flowers version of it.
I'd have Riker grow cold and somewhat evil ( and if that means Troi has to bite it, so be it. Possibly in the first episode ), to the point where the viewer isn't really voting for the protagonist. As he gets closer and closer to his goal, he becomes more and more focused until that's all he sees. Finally, in the finale of the series, he wins back Earth and saves it's people, but only by sacrificing himself to do it.
Jean-luc could live or die, it'd be up to the plot.
Anyway, that's the idea I had. I think it would have been an awesome series to watch.
Right. Dell is going broke selling computers.
Completely different business model, so the attempted comparison is worthless.
I guess that beats everyone else's motto; "If there is something good in the world, aquire dubious IP then SUE SUE SUE!".
Sadly, I have a three year old AND a mythdora system. I got it, and it caused an involuntary twitch.
have you used vista?
it's a far better user experience than windows XP. if they did put some DRM related stuff in there, I haven't noticed, nor will 99.99% of its userbase.
Jesus, have *you* used vista? The user intended user experience could be orgasmic, but I'll be damned if I can get the thing stable given the state of drivers for my vista approved hardware.
In a year it may be better than XP ( and at best, marginally so ), but right now it's hit and miss.
Because SSL doesn't work for UDP
Excuse me?
There's a reason a T1 line still costs $600+/month.
Ya, and it has nothing to do with the reasons you described. T1s and other lines with an SLA are so expensive because of their guaranteed uptime ( See the afore mentioned SLA ). I get 99.999999 uptime guaranteed from the company delivering it to me. That kind of up time is hellishly expensive.
Business grade dsl and cable connections let you run whatever you want over them; but they aren't guaranteed with that kind of up time, and their price reflects that.
Ok, but here's the counter argument; MythTV and TiVo are two completely different products, each serving different needs. So while yes, myth does end up more expensive, you get far more for your money.
In my specific case, I couldn't live without MythVideo. I have tons of videos stored on the thing, all accessible from the click of a button. Instead of having to hunt down the DVD, plop it into the machine and navigate the fucking ads and menus, I just click a button and watch the video. Last I heard, TiVo can't do that.
Seeking networking security professional for immediate vacancy.
It's a difference of audience. Diebold sells to the government, who hates it when the public points out that it's getting raped by a private contractor.
MS is aimed at corporations, who are top heavy with clueless idiots. You can point out the obvious to them, and they will blindly keep doing whatever it is they were doing, even if it tanks the company. Afterwards, they will be hired by another company to do the exact same thing over again, only they will get paid WAAAAY more this time around.
The Crown reneged while Columbus was alive and he started the lawsuits. He was out of favour merely for trying to hold the crown to its commitments.
Oh, my bad. I remember it differently, but it's been years since my history class.
Dude have some perspective please. Darl didn't rape or murder anyone.
Neither did the Enron folks.
What was the case grounds?
The memory is fuzzy, but it has something to do with the then-government promising to make Columbus "A very important person" and a few other titles which would have entitled him to a heathly portion of the new world trade revenue. Once he died ( in disgrace ), the crown figured they could go back on those promises. His sons persued the case, making some significant strides initially, but tying up the rest in the courts for a few hundred years.
I don't remember what the outcome was. However, in my mind, the only ones that won would have been the lawyers.
This isn't really relevant, but Columbus's family ( yes, 1492 and all that ) didn't finally finish their court cases with the spanish government until towards the end of the 17th century.
I would expect this to be about that long.
...and yet you still choose to do business with them?
Because, "No one ever got fired for going with ".
Stupid, yes. But then, that's the only reason novell is still in business.
What happens to the first person to get a hold of this software and fully analyze it?
5 bucks says they get a visit from big men in serious black suits and then are never seen again.