Nope. Been in IT 35+ years. He's right. IT is just another job and being 'key players' doesn't make the employee any more deserving of coddling than someone else. Especially as this observation is rather self-motivated.
A clue to all IT personnel: You are an employee hired to do a job. Act like a friggin' professional instead of trying to be the gate keeper from Tron.
"You have maybe one or two persons that do know the system thoroughly and without their knowledge you won't even be able to read back any backup of your documents, which means that your off site tape archive may be completely useless."
First, this situation means they didn't do their job correctly. Second, that sounds very much like you approve of extortion. Your statement would be true if IT guys weren't simply strewn all about the landscape. Hire another.
Conversely, if your team wants the $10K and the Mac is the easiest to own, you go for that first.
We probably need to hear from the team as to why they chose the machine.
"The Mac is what all the teams wanted to own so they tried it first."
I don't know. After a while, all the languages look like "clumps" to me and it's just syntax. It might be that I've been able to shift my programming to support my own interests now, but it kinda felt the same when I worked. Last two sentences, I agree completely.
Shhhhhhhh. Don't spoil the dream.
sig: Just because the people at/. can't type faster than a few words a minute doesn't mean I need a full minute to type a five word response.
I'm unaware of any gut bacteria that have symbiotic relationships with viruses. Could you give me some references? Interesting concept to read up on.
But, comparing a drug that targets dsRNA specifically with broad-spectrum antibiotics isn't really a valid comparison, because even if your hypothesis about symbiosis is true, it won't be the bulk of the bacteria, so the death rate won't be comparable.
I have one question for you. What is 'created money'? I'd really like an answer a tad beyond "money that's created". I'm wondering how you envision unleashed natural wonder and curiosity creating it.
I just drive around the edge until it all disappears. You simply have to not care about the track pattern. If you're going for track pattern: one can't help the obsessive.
Cool. Please describe one with enough detail that we can ascertain that it will work. Also, if it's an abstract concept with no analogue in the world, please provide a detailed migration plan that will avoid mass destruction as a probable side effect.
Someone so brilliant as to be so intimately versed in what it takes to get a PhD that he can with impunity berate all others who don't have his amazing insight into the process used the phrase
I think you are correct that it is rotten for the earlier devices, but that's not a long term argument. Probably not even much of a short term one any more. Sorry you're device is becoming obsolete, but that's the way with cutting edge. I seem to remember my first removable disk was only good for maybe six months before the company discontinued it.
I don't think it will be all that long before all new e-reading devices can view rather large books and therefore pdfs with no problem.
True, but I think I would would name that character "New Character" instead of killing an existing one off. The entire point is to co-opt an existing, successful character, so you have to start there.
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Nope. Been in IT 35+ years. He's right. IT is just another job and being 'key players' doesn't make the employee any more deserving of coddling than someone else. Especially as this observation is rather self-motivated.
A clue to all IT personnel: You are an employee hired to do a job. Act like a friggin' professional instead of trying to be the gate keeper from Tron.
"You have maybe one or two persons that do know the system thoroughly and without their knowledge you won't even be able to read back any backup of your documents, which means that your off site tape archive may be completely useless."
First, this situation means they didn't do their job correctly. Second, that sounds very much like you approve of extortion. Your statement would be true if IT guys weren't simply strewn all about the landscape. Hire another.
Conversely, if your team wants the $10K and the Mac is the easiest to own, you go for that first. We probably need to hear from the team as to why they chose the machine.
"The Mac is what all the teams wanted to own so they tried it first."
Odds are simply against that.
"They probably cheated..."
On what exactly do you base this?
Then you need to figure out a *viable* method of reimbursing the people who produce the work.
An author writes a book and it's legal to simply copy and distribute it? No more books.
An inventor creates a new internal printer sensor and some other company can simply use it without payment? No more new sensors.
So, your take is that you should follow along smiling at every change, even if it's unnecessary and doesn't benefit you because - it's change?
Really? Define for me the accepted time frame delineating weather. Now do the same for climate.
No. Google sees the searcher as a data bank to be mined.
I don't know. After a while, all the languages look like "clumps" to me and it's just syntax. It might be that I've been able to shift my programming to support my own interests now, but it kinda felt the same when I worked. Last two sentences, I agree completely.
Obviously, it bothers me enough that, in my irritation, I forgot ./ requires br's.
Shhhhhhhh. Don't spoil the dream. sig: Just because the people at /. can't type faster than a few words a minute doesn't mean I need a full minute to type a five word response.
I'm unaware of any gut bacteria that have symbiotic relationships with viruses. Could you give me some references? Interesting concept to read up on.
But, comparing a drug that targets dsRNA specifically with broad-spectrum antibiotics isn't really a valid comparison, because even if your hypothesis about symbiosis is true, it won't be the bulk of the bacteria, so the death rate won't be comparable.
Good thing you posted AC, or we'd know who had the logical IQ of a crustacean.
Mine's a plain install and it crashed yesterday. First time in a very long time though.
Accuse, nothing. But he wasn't simply accused, he was accused of ***something he did***.
It's a trivial detail to some, not so trivial to others.
I have one question for you. What is 'created money'? I'd really like an answer a tad beyond "money that's created". I'm wondering how you envision unleashed natural wonder and curiosity creating it.
I just drive around the edge until it all disappears. You simply have to not care about the track pattern. If you're going for track pattern: one can't help the obsessive.
Cool. Please describe one with enough detail that we can ascertain that it will work. Also, if it's an abstract concept with no analogue in the world, please provide a detailed migration plan that will avoid mass destruction as a probable side effect.
Other than knee jerk, why?
And any cluster can be sentenced?
Cash is hard to use why? I walk into a store. I pick out a CD, a DVD and a book. I proceed to checkout and pull out a fifty. I get change and leave.
Wherein lies the difficulty?
You're shitting me.
Someone so brilliant as to be so intimately versed in what it takes to get a PhD that he can with impunity berate all others who don't have his amazing insight into the process used the phrase
"the original killer app for the PC"?
I think you are correct that it is rotten for the earlier devices, but that's not a long term argument. Probably not even much of a short term one any more. Sorry you're device is becoming obsolete, but that's the way with cutting edge. I seem to remember my first removable disk was only good for maybe six months before the company discontinued it.
I don't think it will be all that long before all new e-reading devices can view rather large books and therefore pdfs with no problem.
Me as well. My last comment somewhere else is now void. Sorry.
"Why just yesterday I was..."
A personal anecdote from an anonymous coward. How quaint.
True, but I think I would would name that character "New Character" instead of killing an existing one off. The entire point is to co-opt an existing, successful character, so you have to start there.