The tax was poorly written. It was a tax on gross receipts over 21 million. This hit low margin businesses hard. Yeah sure, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Getty and the rest could have paid it. We have many regional businesses that would be hit very hard, likely leaving the city. We need to revisit it.
Managing distractions is the key thing I am working on.
I manage a team consisting of a systems engineer, one help desk person and a bank operations clerk that depends heavily on the technology group.
We are unfortunately not back office, we are very accessible to the general bank staff. This has its blessings but far more detractors in my opinion. There's an expectation by the rest of the bank staff that my people are accessible at any time for walk up questions. This is far from the case, we all have our projects and work queues.
So what I have been doing to deflecting these walk ups and ad-hoc requests as much as possible. I find these distractions to be the biggest hindrance to productivity and employee happiness for my group. My people just want to keep things running and solve business problems. They do not want to help people download photos of Mr. Sniffles to their "hard drive".
Long story short, consider the distractions whether it be operational, logistical or even political. If you can insulate and protect your people from the minutia that is the modern workplace, I think you will find them productive and happy. Your people should feel like they completed something each day they leave. Also leave at good hours and be able to leave the office behind on the weekends.
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Actually, something else is causing the seals to fail on the bearings and master bearing. The sampling pipe was the original theory but it could not account for the damage being done.
FTFA “Contractors are not entirely sure what’s happening to the seals. They’re letting sand in, which is not good,” said Matt Preedy, deputy Highway 99 administrator for the state Department of Transportation (DOT). “Either you’ve got gaps somewhere, or you’ve got cracks in the seals.”
Basically, our water front soil make up is not ideal. Much of the Seattle water front is fill dirt from various late 19th century and early 20th century projects around Seattle. Much of the path Bertha is taking underground is lined with caissons to keep the liquid dirt at bay.
It's a cycle. Overpopulation requires more arable land for agriculture. When there isn't any, it's created, such as the San Joaquin Valley. This valley was basically desert. This was done by damming a few rivers and irrigating the land. That being said you can only convert so many deserts for agriculture, you start to run out of water, even if you still receive your normal annual rain fall. That would be a drought caused by over population. Same thing is is happening in Phoenix. The water table continues to drop and the aquifers are becoming harder and harder to reach. Not due to climate change but by more people.
So dealing with overpopulation needs to go hand in hand with changing how we generate and use energy.
There's a movement in the industrialized world. Fewer young people are choosing to have children period. I'm not sure if this trend would ever offset those who choose to have 5, 10 or even 12 offspring in their life.
A Vietnamese friend once explained that in Vietnam, people have large families as infant mortality was quite high; to the point that children would be referred to by their birth order for several years until it was certain they would survive. So the oldest would be "First One" then so on and so forth. With modern medicine, infant mortality has plummeted but cultures still believe they need large families.
I agree, family planning is one tool to mitigate our future issues.
For the vast majority of the smart phone crowd, they do not care. Just as long as they can get that "urgent" work email, post a picture of their lunch and tweet about how tired they are in the evening.
I was thinking this would be a boon for me. I do in home and business support in my off hours, good spending money. However, due to my issues with McAfee, none of my regular clients use McAfee AV products.
So, if I had recommended McAfee to my clients, I would be a rich person now. Damn, doing the right things doesn't make as much money!
I don't why the parent has been moderated as funny... It's actually insightful. I use the Ubuntu live CD and web services for information storage when I need to do personal stuff and all I have is my company issued laptop. It keeps my data seperate, away from their prying eyes and in a single location so I can work with it when I have my personal laptop available.
The issue with powering on machines is solved with wake on LAN.
However, it seems everyone has implemented this differently. I administer a Dell shop. Not all the workstations seem to respond to the same magic packet. The division is across NIC chipset manufacturers. The Broadcoms work one way and the Intels work another.
In my experience, leaving the machines one is still the best solution.
I work in a high rise office building. Our power is included in our lease for the space. There is no incentive for me to power down workstations at night. That being said, you could argue that I would be helping everyone for the greater good. It still comes down to me expending resources without any direct benefit either way. The lease is not cheaper if I use less power. If my office paid per kwh, then it makes sense. Till then, my workstations stay on at night.
Oh and my workstations do not sit idle. Full anti-virus scans and updates are performed in off hours in order to minimize impact during the work day.
This is a civil matter involving libel. I'm sure a couple days out of class is better than a several thousand dollar settlement.
#include DevilsAdvocate.h
Isn't this an abuse of power by the principal? Shouldn't the correct course of action, if he wished to be made whole, had been pursuing a civil suit?
I think this is akin to the city repossessing your house because you called the county commissioner a "doo doo head". This hypothetical is the same in reaction but not in scale.
What's the best way to maintain plausible deniability? Kill the person who actually committed the crime. Your patsy does the dirty work, then you dispose of them.
I took it a step further and added heat sinks. I have noticed that routers are made more cheaply these days.
I have one of the original 4 port routers from Linksys. After 9 years it still works fine. Point in fact, I use it along with an access point for best performance.
Though recently I have changed over to a WRT54GL with Tomato. Best router hardware and software combo I have seen.
This has been on my mind for some time now. I'm now at the limit of what Speakeasy can offer with their ADSL service, 7Mbs/768Kbps. While this is good enough for my current needs, I do not have room to grow as I add IP based services.
I recently had an email exchange with Speakeasy and they do not plan to invest in new technologies to either replace their ADSL offering or upgrade it. Also, WiMax will not be deployed beyond downtown Seattle. Speakeasy, are you looking to be bought out?
If Speakeasy dies or becomes out moded then what options will I have? Comcast or Verizon... Nice choice.
As an aside, same argument here. Look at population density. It costs more per drop in most of our country than any other. However that is still not an excuse for the sad state of broadband offerings in major metro areas.
I'm surprised by Verizon because you don't need a Verizon PC to use FIOS. Imagine that! Those clever engineers figured out a way to make a service profitable without proprietary lock in. Gee they are great!
Okay I do have a chip on my shoulder when it comes to Verizon.
Now imagine if Verizon FIOS was operated like Verizon Wireless.
You would be required to sign a 2 year contract and pay $1000 for a PC that can barely take advantage of the basic features of the service. If you wanted something that could give you the full experience that would be a 2 year contract plus $2000 for equipment.
All the while the PC they sold you would be locked to FIOS and have many features disabled. Some features I can imagine being disabled would be File Transfers via FTP or any standard protocol. You would be required to use their application at a fee for every transfer.
You would be locked out of using other media services like Apple, Yahoo or audiable.
Your information services would be limited to their partners, probably fox news...
Finally they would happily hand over your personal information to those willing to pay or a government with no probable cause or a warrant.
This all sounds very familiar now that I write this all... Net Neutrality anyone? or a lack there of...
The real advantage to the improved imaging from microsoft is they have done away with the Hardware Abstraction Layer. That means I can create one image for many different systems. In theory I could use the same image on a HP desktop as on a Sony laptop. This is a very nice enhancement.
This is something @home did. They provided content via a portal that was on their network. Media companies who wanted their content on @home had to pay. @home in turn provided a dedicated audience and higher bandwidth availability to the content.
That being said, why can't ISPs, Content Producers and Content Providers use this method? Setup regional servers that can provide dedicated bandwidth to those willing to pay and a dedicated audience by way of the ISPs subscribers.
I think the reason is control and money. The ISPs, Content Producers and Providers want more control over the audience. They want lock in. They want everything that is bad for a free market.
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The tax was poorly written. It was a tax on gross receipts over 21 million. This hit low margin businesses hard. Yeah sure, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Getty and the rest could have paid it. We have many regional businesses that would be hit very hard, likely leaving the city. We need to revisit it.
I'm in a similar situation as you, OP.
Managing distractions is the key thing I am working on.
I manage a team consisting of a systems engineer, one help desk person and a bank operations clerk that depends heavily on the technology group.
We are unfortunately not back office, we are very accessible to the general bank staff. This has its blessings but far more detractors in my opinion. There's an expectation by the rest of the bank staff that my people are accessible at any time for walk up questions. This is far from the case, we all have our projects and work queues.
So what I have been doing to deflecting these walk ups and ad-hoc requests as much as possible. I find these distractions to be the biggest hindrance to productivity and employee happiness for my group. My people just want to keep things running and solve business problems. They do not want to help people download photos of Mr. Sniffles to their "hard drive".
Long story short, consider the distractions whether it be operational, logistical or even political. If you can insulate and protect your people from the minutia that is the modern workplace, I think you will find them productive and happy. Your people should feel like they completed something each day they leave. Also leave at good hours and be able to leave the office behind on the weekends.
Actually, something else is causing the seals to fail on the bearings and master bearing. The sampling pipe was the original theory but it could not account for the damage being done.
FTFA “Contractors are not entirely sure what’s happening to the seals. They’re letting sand in, which is not good,” said Matt Preedy, deputy Highway 99 administrator for the state Department of Transportation (DOT). “Either you’ve got gaps somewhere, or you’ve got cracks in the seals.”
http://seattletimes.com/html/l...
Basically, our water front soil make up is not ideal. Much of the Seattle water front is fill dirt from various late 19th century and early 20th century projects around Seattle. Much of the path Bertha is taking underground is lined with caissons to keep the liquid dirt at bay.
It's a cycle. Overpopulation requires more arable land for agriculture. When there isn't any, it's created, such as the San Joaquin Valley. This valley was basically desert. This was done by damming a few rivers and irrigating the land. That being said you can only convert so many deserts for agriculture, you start to run out of water, even if you still receive your normal annual rain fall. That would be a drought caused by over population. Same thing is is happening in Phoenix. The water table continues to drop and the aquifers are becoming harder and harder to reach. Not due to climate change but by more people.
So dealing with overpopulation needs to go hand in hand with changing how we generate and use energy.
There's a movement in the industrialized world. Fewer young people are choosing to have children period. I'm not sure if this trend would ever offset those who choose to have 5, 10 or even 12 offspring in their life.
A Vietnamese friend once explained that in Vietnam, people have large families as infant mortality was quite high; to the point that children would be referred to by their birth order for several years until it was certain they would survive. So the oldest would be "First One" then so on and so forth. With modern medicine, infant mortality has plummeted but cultures still believe they need large families.
I agree, family planning is one tool to mitigate our future issues.
You beat me to it.
For more information: Maginot Line
However, for that to happen, people need to care.
For the vast majority of the smart phone crowd, they do not care. Just as long as they can get that "urgent" work email, post a picture of their lunch and tweet about how tired they are in the evening.
I was thinking this would be a boon for me. I do in home and business support in my off hours, good spending money. However, due to my issues with McAfee, none of my regular clients use McAfee AV products.
So, if I had recommended McAfee to my clients, I would be a rich person now. Damn, doing the right things doesn't make as much money!
There's nothing worth watching.
Rest assured we are still waiting for Black Mesa. The vaporware list will be long and healthy this year.
I don't why the parent has been moderated as funny... It's actually insightful. I use the Ubuntu live CD and web services for information storage when I need to do personal stuff and all I have is my company issued laptop. It keeps my data seperate, away from their prying eyes and in a single location so I can work with it when I have my personal laptop available.
At least "Who is more evil than Satan himself" search provides accurate and timely information.
The issue with powering on machines is solved with wake on LAN.
However, it seems everyone has implemented this differently. I administer a Dell shop. Not all the workstations seem to respond to the same magic packet. The division is across NIC chipset manufacturers. The Broadcoms work one way and the Intels work another.
In my experience, leaving the machines one is still the best solution.
I work in a high rise office building. Our power is included in our lease for the space. There is no incentive for me to power down workstations at night. That being said, you could argue that I would be helping everyone for the greater good. It still comes down to me expending resources without any direct benefit either way. The lease is not cheaper if I use less power. If my office paid per kwh, then it makes sense. Till then, my workstations stay on at night.
Oh and my workstations do not sit idle. Full anti-virus scans and updates are performed in off hours in order to minimize impact during the work day.
Excellent example, thank you.
Agreed.
This is a civil matter involving libel. I'm sure a couple days out of class is better than a several thousand dollar settlement.
#include DevilsAdvocate.h
Isn't this an abuse of power by the principal? Shouldn't the correct course of action, if he wished to be made whole, had been pursuing a civil suit?
I think this is akin to the city repossessing your house because you called the county commissioner a "doo doo head". This hypothetical is the same in reaction but not in scale.
What's the best way to maintain plausible deniability? Kill the person who actually committed the crime. Your patsy does the dirty work, then you dispose of them.
I took it a step further and added heat sinks. I have noticed that routers are made more cheaply these days. I have one of the original 4 port routers from Linksys. After 9 years it still works fine. Point in fact, I use it along with an access point for best performance. Though recently I have changed over to a WRT54GL with Tomato. Best router hardware and software combo I have seen.
Fox news also has Oliver North. Fox news keeps strange company. I question their choice in consultants. I'm glad I do not get my news from Fox.
This has been on my mind for some time now. I'm now at the limit of what Speakeasy can offer with their ADSL service, 7Mbs/768Kbps. While this is good enough for my current needs, I do not have room to grow as I add IP based services.
I recently had an email exchange with Speakeasy and they do not plan to invest in new technologies to either replace their ADSL offering or upgrade it. Also, WiMax will not be deployed beyond downtown Seattle. Speakeasy, are you looking to be bought out?
If Speakeasy dies or becomes out moded then what options will I have? Comcast or Verizon... Nice choice.
As an aside, same argument here. Look at population density. It costs more per drop in most of our country than any other. However that is still not an excuse for the sad state of broadband offerings in major metro areas.
I'm surprised by Verizon because you don't need a Verizon PC to use FIOS. Imagine that! Those clever engineers figured out a way to make a service profitable without proprietary lock in. Gee they are great!
Okay I do have a chip on my shoulder when it comes to Verizon.
Now imagine if Verizon FIOS was operated like Verizon Wireless.
You would be required to sign a 2 year contract and pay $1000 for a PC that can barely take advantage of the basic features of the service. If you wanted something that could give you the full experience that would be a 2 year contract plus $2000 for equipment.
All the while the PC they sold you would be locked to FIOS and have many features disabled. Some features I can imagine being disabled would be File Transfers via FTP or any standard protocol. You would be required to use their application at a fee for every transfer.
You would be locked out of using other media services like Apple, Yahoo or audiable.
Your information services would be limited to their partners, probably fox news...
Finally they would happily hand over your personal information to those willing to pay or a government with no probable cause or a warrant.
This all sounds very familiar now that I write this all... Net Neutrality anyone? or a lack there of...
Goes right inline with Shoot first and ask questions later
Or something to that effect...
The real advantage to the improved imaging from microsoft is they have done away with the Hardware Abstraction Layer. That means I can create one image for many different systems. In theory I could use the same image on a HP desktop as on a Sony laptop. This is a very nice enhancement.
This is something @home did. They provided content via a portal that was on their network. Media companies who wanted their content on @home had to pay. @home in turn provided a dedicated audience and higher bandwidth availability to the content.
That being said, why can't ISPs, Content Producers and Content Providers use this method? Setup regional servers that can provide dedicated bandwidth to those willing to pay and a dedicated audience by way of the ISPs subscribers.
I think the reason is control and money. The ISPs, Content Producers and Providers want more control over the audience. They want lock in. They want everything that is bad for a free market.