Have you ever seen how much a temp nurse costs? Try double the staff nurse, Now that temp nurse only gets a small percentage of that extra, the rest goes to the agency.
So a staff nurse might make 18, but a temp nurse might make 22 but the agency pockets the extra 14. In a bid system the nurse can bid out the hard to fill shifts for 24, they make more money and the hospital doesn't pay an outside agency the extra
Except that in the nursing industry there is a shortage and thus, joe normally makes 15 an hour, but because they can;t get anyone else to fill the shift, Joe can command 18.
You misunderstand the article and the nursing industry. This has been common for a few years. Its not that they are trying to get the cheapest labor possible, but rather fill all their slots due to a Nursing SHORTAGE. they have a hard time getting burses to fill those positions. Often they have no problem filling in some of their shifts, at x amount of dollars, but its hard to get All those shifts fills (nights weekends) so they use the bidding system to fill those slots. the nurse who fill those positions bid at a higher hourly rate then the normal shift rate. The hospital then fills those positions with the lowest bidder, which is still usually more then their standard rate, but usually much cheaper then the rate they would pay to an nursing "temp" agency or overtime to a staff nurse whose suffering burnout from working 60 hour weeks.
Here everyone wins, the hospital gets their hard to fill slots staffed, the nurses can command a higher rate for those premium shifts.
The healthcare industry has to be creative to cover those hard to fill shifts. my mom works at an RN at a nursing home, the home had a hard time getting weekends covered, people would call in sick etc, so they offered her a sweet deal. She contracts to work every weekend, no excuses, for 2 15 hours shifts, inexchange they pay her for 40 hours. This way she gets her whole week free, the home gets the shift filed, and the residents win because they have a consistent presences every weekend with a nurse who knows them and their history. If they used a agency nurse or rotated the schedule, the patients would have different nurses every weekend. As anyone who has worked with alzheimers patients can attest, a very structured, consistent environmnet can help immensely,
I don't think we adding bean counters, but more technical staff, at least that's how I read it. sounds like he's trying to ease the workload, but then, I could be wrong.
It's cheaper for those looking for a solution on a smaller scale. Citrix is great if you have enough users to justify the cost of a separate server, and the licensing for citrix, and the software license. However, for 2 to 10 users that might be overkill.
Hmm I think people are missing the point, sure you have to buy 2 license for your software, but how is that different then buying 2 separate machines? From a support standpoint, it is easier to configure and support 25 machines instead of 50. I see this as a good thing for small companies that want or need to stick with windows but can't get the justify having enough systems to realize cost savings from a full blown Thin cliient scenario.
I saw this commentary in my local paper today. You might want to get some facts behind your argument instead of spewing the party line. (By the way, this is from the Oregonian, one of the most liberal papers, in one of the most liberal cities in the country.)
As an American, it is perfectly alright for me to vote with MY conscience. if you don't agree with me that's fine, that's what your vote is for. However, belittling anothers opinion because you don't agree with it is a sign of ineffectual debating skills and an inability to construct a logical argument.
I'm not disagreeing ith your main point, but to claim that the weather over the last 2 years is indicitive of anything is absurd. Hell, even the record of weather over the last 100 years, when humans first started tracking the weather in a scientific mannerm is nothing more then a statisitical blip in the entire timeline of weather on earth.
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Agreed, An ibook fits your requirements perfectly, and it's less expensive then a sony. (except for the trachpad part)
No I think you misunderstand. To us, a quality pc is a pc from a reliable manufacturer for 799, not a cheap box for 350. Consider that a thin client appliance with licenses costs us less then 550 (with the same end user experience as a fat client). I'd rather spend our money somewhere.
800 for a corporate level pc is not uncommon. .
And don't tell me I could build one cheaper out of the same components as the big boys, because that's a lie once you factor in my time in assembling , installing and configuring the OS. Considering what I'm paying my staff, that's a huge waste of company resources.
If thin client is such a failure, and most companies don't think like that, then tell me why Places like Merril Lynch, t-mobile, chrysler, forbes etc use them? Oh that's right, because in your limited world view, you don't like them, so they must not make business sense
No I'm saying the thin client appliance and quality commodity boxes have a proven history of long term reliability, so I don't have to stand before the cfo and explain to him why the cheap boxes I bought last year are are failing at an EXCESSIVE rate. The Thin Clients we buy now have no moving parts so mechanical failures on the client end are almost unheard.
Not quite. Don't forget the TCO. It's alot easier and quicker to maintain and update a a properly setup thin client soluton serving forty nodes then 40 commodity boxes.
I switched my company over to citrix and we ended up saving alot.
1) I could use our legacy pc's in a locked down state as clients. This avoided having to buy new pc's just because our accounting app needed a faster processor.
2)with centralized administration, we were able to avoid having to hire another staffer to handle support calls.
3) When a piece of hardware dies, I can replaced it with a QUALITY thin client appliance for a less then it would cost for a QUALITY commodity box. Sure I could buy cheaper no name hardware, but I wouldn't stake my job on it.
4) Our customized software does not need to be rewritten for different platforms. Doesn't matter if the client is running Windows, OS X, Linux or an embedded OS. they work exactly the same on each platfom. Not kind of the same, not sort of the same, but exactly the same. This saves on training the monkeys, I mean end users.
We can also provide secure remote access to our data without worrying about whose using what license, and whether their offsite machine is compromised.
At our current growth rate, we save almost 40% with thin clients over commodity boxes. That's not some number pulled from a marketing whitepaper, that's an apple to apples comparison from our department budget when we looked at both scenarios.
I feel your pain, but principals aside, if you have 19 years, the certfication should be a cake walk for you. Swallow your pride, take the test and move on.
The certs will get you past the HR dragons, your experience will get you the job.
Can you engineer a more readable sentence? Maybe something with some commas?
I like how your links all point to items either so brain dead any one could operate them (ipod), or to projects and products that have a large grassroots user-based support mechanism. (star office, palm, blender)
I sense much bitterness in you. Maybe you should trying evacuating your bowels on a more regualr basis.
Even 35 0 for a 17 inch is a bit on the low side. If it's a decent 17 inch screen, not some off brand crap at tigerdirect, a decent 17 still costz around 450 to 500
Yes, we all know Linux is a Kernel. However in the context of this discussion, and in most discussions, people are not refering to the kernel, they are referring to the Whole deal. While "distro" would be the technically correct term for it, You know damn well what a person is saying if they say say Linux Rocks, Windows Drools.
I find it really annoying when people like to play semantics with words. They sound like a bunch of whiny losers.
Much as the way the word Hacker has been co-opted by the world to mean someone who breaks into computers, so too has Linux been chosen as the word to refer to the entire GNU/Linux Operating System and packages.
Deal with it.
Let's call this for what it is, an OS upgrade, not a patch.
Having said that , I can't think of any times I've upgraded a distro, (suse 8 to 9, Mandrake , Redhat hat) and not have a stuff stop working. Linux is great, but it too has problems with incompatibilities between versions.
When I was in in the mid nineties, we had a nes with a m-16 shaped light rifle. of course it wasn't going to simulate the whole thing if you went into it acting like it was Duck hunt. Instead, the point was for you to ACT like it was the real thing. That meant going through the motions. It wasn't about teaching you aiming, but rather getting you into the practice of going through the steps involved, so that when you fired the real thing, you focused less on the mechanics of firing, because it had already become a habit.
It was no substitute for the real thing, but it was a good supplement. You can't be on the rifle range every night, but if you wanted you could take some down time and practice when you had a few minutes.
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Here's where you missed it then. Most people who complain about how "I work harder then everybody else in my office, and I don't play the political game at work, i just do my job, and do it well and now I got shafted," don't get it.
The fact is, that playing the social game is part of your job. Is it written in your job description? No. Do they teach a college course on it? probably not. Don't like it? Tough. It's a harsh world out there and nepotism, favoritism and who you know are just as important as what you know. Deal with it and move on, or drop out, grow some dreadlocks, and blame the man.
Interesting, maybe Microsoft changed the specs when they released your version. I did some looking on the web and found nothing, but did notice that even XP only requires a minimum of a 233.
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So a staff nurse might make 18, but a temp nurse might make 22 but the agency pockets the extra 14. In a bid system the nurse can bid out the hard to fill shifts for 24, they make more money and the hospital doesn't pay an outside agency the extra
Except that in the nursing industry there is a shortage and thus, joe normally makes 15 an hour, but because they can;t get anyone else to fill the shift, Joe can command 18.
Here everyone wins, the hospital gets their hard to fill slots staffed, the nurses can command a higher rate for those premium shifts.
The healthcare industry has to be creative to cover those hard to fill shifts. my mom works at an RN at a nursing home, the home had a hard time getting weekends covered, people would call in sick etc, so they offered her a sweet deal. She contracts to work every weekend, no excuses, for 2 15 hours shifts, inexchange they pay her for 40 hours. This way she gets her whole week free, the home gets the shift filed, and the residents win because they have a consistent presences every weekend with a nurse who knows them and their history. If they used a agency nurse or rotated the schedule, the patients would have different nurses every weekend. As anyone who has worked with alzheimers patients can attest, a very structured, consistent environmnet can help immensely,
I don't think we adding bean counters, but more technical staff, at least that's how I read it. sounds like he's trying to ease the workload, but then, I could be wrong.
It's cheaper for those looking for a solution on a smaller scale. Citrix is great if you have enough users to justify the cost of a separate server, and the licensing for citrix, and the software license. However, for 2 to 10 users that might be overkill.
Hmm I think people are missing the point, sure you have to buy 2 license for your software, but how is that different then buying 2 separate machines? From a support standpoint, it is easier to configure and support 25 machines instead of 50. I see this as a good thing for small companies that want or need to stick with windows but can't get the justify having enough systems to realize cost savings from a full blown Thin cliient scenario.
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As an American, it is perfectly alright for me to vote with MY conscience. if you don't agree with me that's fine, that's what your vote is for. However, belittling anothers opinion because you don't agree with it is a sign of ineffectual debating skills and an inability to construct a logical argument.
I'm not disagreeing ith your main point, but to claim that the weather over the last 2 years is indicitive of anything is absurd. Hell, even the record of weather over the last 100 years, when humans first started tracking the weather in a scientific mannerm is nothing more then a statisitical blip in the entire timeline of weather on earth.
Agreed, An ibook fits your requirements perfectly, and it's less expensive then a sony. (except for the trachpad part)
800 for a corporate level pc is not uncommon. .
And don't tell me I could build one cheaper out of the same components as the big boys, because that's a lie once you factor in my time in assembling , installing and configuring the OS. Considering what I'm paying my staff, that's a huge waste of company resources.
If thin client is such a failure, and most companies don't think like that, then tell me why Places like Merril Lynch, t-mobile, chrysler, forbes etc use them? Oh that's right, because in your limited world view, you don't like them, so they must not make business sense
here's some more. http://www.citrix.com/site/aboutCitrix/caseStudies /caseStudies.asp/
No I'm saying the thin client appliance and quality commodity boxes have a proven history of long term reliability, so I don't have to stand before the cfo and explain to him why the cheap boxes I bought last year are are failing at an EXCESSIVE rate. The Thin Clients we buy now have no moving parts so mechanical failures on the client end are almost unheard.
I'm curious, where did you get those numbers from?
Can we give the man a pat on the back for his honesty?
I switched my company over to citrix and we ended up saving alot.
1) I could use our legacy pc's in a locked down state as clients. This avoided having to buy new pc's just because our accounting app needed a faster processor.
2)with centralized administration, we were able to avoid having to hire another staffer to handle support calls.
3) When a piece of hardware dies, I can replaced it with a QUALITY thin client appliance for a less then it would cost for a QUALITY commodity box. Sure I could buy cheaper no name hardware, but I wouldn't stake my job on it.
4) Our customized software does not need to be rewritten for different platforms. Doesn't matter if the client is running Windows, OS X, Linux or an embedded OS. they work exactly the same on each platfom. Not kind of the same, not sort of the same, but exactly the same. This saves on training the monkeys, I mean end users.
We can also provide secure remote access to our data without worrying about whose using what license, and whether their offsite machine is compromised.
At our current growth rate, we save almost 40% with thin clients over commodity boxes. That's not some number pulled from a marketing whitepaper, that's an apple to apples comparison from our department budget when we looked at both scenarios.
You sir, should be a speech writer. Inspirational, purely inspirational. Like Gold nuggets falling from the sky.
The certs will get you past the HR dragons, your experience will get you the job.
Can you engineer a more readable sentence? Maybe something with some commas? I like how your links all point to items either so brain dead any one could operate them (ipod), or to projects and products that have a large grassroots user-based support mechanism. (star office, palm, blender) I sense much bitterness in you. Maybe you should trying evacuating your bowels on a more regualr basis.
Even 35 0 for a 17 inch is a bit on the low side. If it's a decent 17 inch screen, not some off brand crap at tigerdirect, a decent 17 still costz around 450 to 500
Same thing here. My Start up folder opened, but nothing was placed in it.
Yes, we all know Linux is a Kernel. However in the context of this discussion, and in most discussions, people are not refering to the kernel, they are referring to the Whole deal. While "distro" would be the technically correct term for it, You know damn well what a person is saying if they say say Linux Rocks, Windows Drools.
I find it really annoying when people like to play semantics with words. They sound like a bunch of whiny losers.
Much as the way the word Hacker has been co-opted by the world to mean someone who breaks into computers, so too has Linux been chosen as the word to refer to the entire GNU/Linux Operating System and packages. Deal with it.
Having said that , I can't think of any times I've upgraded a distro, (suse 8 to 9, Mandrake , Redhat hat) and not have a stuff stop working. Linux is great, but it too has problems with incompatibilities between versions.
It was no substitute for the real thing, but it was a good supplement. You can't be on the rifle range every night, but if you wanted you could take some down time and practice when you had a few minutes.
The fact is, that playing the social game is part of your job. Is it written in your job description? No. Do they teach a college course on it? probably not. Don't like it? Tough. It's a harsh world out there and nepotism, favoritism and who you know are just as important as what you know. Deal with it and move on, or drop out, grow some dreadlocks, and blame the man.
Interesting, maybe Microsoft changed the specs when they released your version. I did some looking on the web and found nothing, but did notice that even XP only requires a minimum of a 233.
According to the 2000 Resource Kit, Minimum supported CPU speed is a Pentium 133.