Let's not fluff ourselves up or anything now. The average/.'r rants and raves - sometimes with facts to back it up, but generally not. The average/.'r wants everything for free, and see's a conspiracy at every single corner.
Gartner is a well respected firm - let's give them some credit.
Heh...i bought my parents a laptop - they are running firefox..they have never even seen IE. When someone mentioned it to them, they asked me about it, and i told them their friend is a moron - who are they going to trust me or him... It was the end of that:D
Oh to show the brain power of their friend - he said he could convert their laptop (in less then 1 minute) to utilize the hebrew character set. It wouldn't need a special keyboard because the screen would be a touchscreen...i was willing to bet my condo on that accomplishment.
why is the above insightful? Gartner is a pretty big group *respected* and doesn't need MS to survive (other then buying licenses to run their computers).
You can when you have written documentation. A while back I had a client make a request of a sales person (an important sales person, who is also a big share-holder). I was told to give the sales person whatever he wanted. He made the request, my boss approved it, the ceo approved it. Two months later shit hit the fan. Everyone was breathing down on my neck "why did you do it"- and I could have been fired - except I had an e-mail from my boss saying to approve it.
Keep a good tracking record and when stuff goes bad, you just pull out the proof.
If someone goes totally behind your back and you have no clue about the purchase - well you can just say "I was not informed a purchase has been made, i had no hand in this at all." Then it is the burdeon of the accusers to prove that you DID have a hand in it...
Well i guess you have had a run of bad luck... i have had many positive experiences, and few negative ones. Teamwork is not overrated - working well together is great...now HR talking about teamwork is overrated as their idea of "Teamwork" involves you not getting a raise, working 65 hours a week and then paying your boss for the priveledge of working;)
Being a "team player" really means nodding your head to your boss so you keep your job and getting paid. Now if someone says "what if he didn't want to work there", he should have quit - at least then he might get a positive reference and he then leaves when he is ready - not when his boss deems it necessary...
There is a difference between couldn't and wouldn't....hopefully he will clarify. I know many people who get uppity about things and tell their boss they refuse to do something - when its their boss telling them to do it...now if there is an ethical issue at hand thats OK, but if we are not talking ethics then well...
I once told my boss that doing something in a specific way was annoying and a waste of time. He asked me if that meant I wouldn't do it. I told him that it meant no such thing - I would do it and do it well, but I knew of a better way. His response - get it done with the same quality and the same time/expense (or better) and do it anyway I want.
Well sorry about the loss of your job...but if your boss disagrees with you and decides to go the other route ---telling him that you will not support his choice is a surefire way to get yourself fired.
Your former boss may have made a bad call - but as his employee you gotta deal with it and when shit hits the fan, he will get in trouble for making the bad call....but by not being a "team player" you open yourself to a world of hurtin (i.e. losing your job)...unless that is what you wanted.
This is nothing new. (just to note we are discussing off the shelf price, not haggled prices through sales people) Dell (and other companies) always offer different prices to different organizations. There is the gov't groups, non-profits, small business, large business, consumer, students, etc...
The company I work for buys all dell hardware (servers, desktops, laptops, monitors) - so we get a slight automatic discount on stuff (not that much really, techbargains can usually offer a better price).
Sometimes, not always, being the big corporation won't get you the best off-the-shelf price. Also, many of times times (as it should be) companies have to input their EIN number to get the price (and usually tax discount)...students need to provide proof of their student status... same for other organizations.
well security programs could be gov't regulated "Ahh thriftway you are limited to seeing the persons first and last name and their picture. Approved or disapproved for the sale" It links up (like a mac machine) to a central database (heavy encryption), retrieves the information.
Now there are companies that might try and misuse this information - and to help give incentive for them to NOT utilize this data heavy penalties could include jail time, and some hefty fees (i.e. 50% of your companies value)...i think marketing firms will be quite reluctant with someone going to jail and hte company losing 50% of their value.
Either way - marketing firms can get your data as it is right now very easily...fingerprint method will only give them fingerprint data on top of what they already know.
with fingerprint, add a pin number and your picture....so when you use your fingerprint the merchant see's your picture. When you use your fingerprint you enter your pin number. Now if the criminal can bypass all of these - you better be slapping your mindreading evil identical twin sibling.
your finger print pops up a picture on a small lcd screen.
Yes and now we will go back to the movie with Sandra Bullock where her entire life was modified. There is always going to be a nay-sayer, there is always going to be a con - but you gotta outweigh the cons with the pros.
Here is a great example - last friday I was robbed at gun point (really I was). They got my money, drivers license, credit cards. Now, luckily, I have a passport (many people do not) - but I do not have access to my credit cards, even my bank gave me problems briefly (i used to work at that bank and know their rules so i shut the teller up quick).
Now if my fingerprint could get me direct access to my money, credit card, drivers license, etc I would 1) not have lost anything 2) not have been robbed since there is nothing to rob. A great benefit that in my opinion outweights the potential that the gov't might look at my bank transactions (which they can do anyhow), or me forgetting my pin number (which i still have a fingerprint)
the canadian gov't (and USA companies dealing with canada) are griping because the patriot act forces these companies to give up their information....well if you don't want this to happen - don't bring it into the US borders. Once it's on US land it falls under US jurisdiction.
Years ago (early 90's) there was a show called Beyond 2000 which would feature new and innovative gadgets. One of them was this paper (looked like saran wrap) that would be flavored like some food and you could eat it. It would have all the nutrients you needed....though sorry - i can't see myself getting full on this and while nutrition is important - people generally eat because they are hungry.
I don't consider this asian girl i am seeing my girlfriend - but she sleeps with me, and she is hot - so I might have a better deal then the above guy with a "hot asian girlfriend"
Or you can only use the fingerprint in person, or you need to use it with a secret pass-code. It is much better then a credit card option (and harder to manufacture).
does everything have to be an evil conspiracy? Is it not possible that bio-metric devices could be used for pure good? Do you really think the gov't needs your fingerprint to track your credit card purchases?
What do you mean get cash outside of the USA? I can get cash in the USA and buy things without being tracked. Now the gov't will know I drew X amount of dollars from my bank, but they won't necessarily know how i spent it (woohooo go strippers).
Personally, I want implant that has all of my information - credit card, drivers license, medical records, house keys, etc.
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Let's not fluff ourselves up or anything now. The average /.'r rants and raves - sometimes with facts to back it up, but generally not. The average /.'r wants everything for free, and see's a conspiracy at every single corner.
Gartner is a well respected firm - let's give them some credit.
Heh...i bought my parents a laptop - they are running firefox..they have never even seen IE. When someone mentioned it to them, they asked me about it, and i told them their friend is a moron - who are they going to trust me or him... It was the end of that :D
Oh to show the brain power of their friend - he said he could convert their laptop (in less then 1 minute) to utilize the hebrew character set. It wouldn't need a special keyboard because the screen would be a touchscreen...i was willing to bet my condo on that accomplishment.
why is the above insightful? Gartner is a pretty big group *respected* and doesn't need MS to survive (other then buying licenses to run their computers).
I ran longhorn beta on my P3 800 Mghtz, with 512 ram, scsi hard drive, scsi dvd rom so which longhorn are you talking about?
If we are paying for it definitly commercials should be out - but what will really happen is that the tv companies will just rake in extra profit.
This years season has been really good so far and I am actually excited in seeing the federation be created!!!
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You can when you have written documentation. A while back I had a client make a request of a sales person (an important sales person, who is also a big share-holder). I was told to give the sales person whatever he wanted. He made the request, my boss approved it, the ceo approved it. Two months later shit hit the fan. Everyone was breathing down on my neck "why did you do it"- and I could have been fired - except I had an e-mail from my boss saying to approve it.
Keep a good tracking record and when stuff goes bad, you just pull out the proof.
If someone goes totally behind your back and you have no clue about the purchase - well you can just say "I was not informed a purchase has been made, i had no hand in this at all." Then it is the burdeon of the accusers to prove that you DID have a hand in it...
Richard Priar "I'm black?"
Husband to wife: "Hey you said you were a 5'9" super model"
Well i guess you have had a run of bad luck... i have had many positive experiences, and few negative ones. Teamwork is not overrated - working well together is great...now HR talking about teamwork is overrated as their idea of "Teamwork" involves you not getting a raise, working 65 hours a week and then paying your boss for the priveledge of working ;)
Being a "team player" really means nodding your head to your boss so you keep your job and getting paid. Now if someone says "what if he didn't want to work there", he should have quit - at least then he might get a positive reference and he then leaves when he is ready - not when his boss deems it necessary...
There is a difference between couldn't and wouldn't....hopefully he will clarify. I know many people who get uppity about things and tell their boss they refuse to do something - when its their boss telling them to do it...now if there is an ethical issue at hand thats OK, but if we are not talking ethics then well...
I once told my boss that doing something in a specific way was annoying and a waste of time. He asked me if that meant I wouldn't do it. I told him that it meant no such thing - I would do it and do it well, but I knew of a better way. His response - get it done with the same quality and the same time/expense (or better) and do it anyway I want.
nope...they each cost differently. And when you book the flight (changes occur every minute) changes to the prices happen.
Well sorry about the loss of your job...but if your boss disagrees with you and decides to go the other route ---telling him that you will not support his choice is a surefire way to get yourself fired.
Your former boss may have made a bad call - but as his employee you gotta deal with it and when shit hits the fan, he will get in trouble for making the bad call....but by not being a "team player" you open yourself to a world of hurtin (i.e. losing your job)...unless that is what you wanted.
This is nothing new. (just to note we are discussing off the shelf price, not haggled prices through sales people) Dell (and other companies) always offer different prices to different organizations. There is the gov't groups, non-profits, small business, large business, consumer, students, etc...
The company I work for buys all dell hardware (servers, desktops, laptops, monitors) - so we get a slight automatic discount on stuff (not that much really, techbargains can usually offer a better price).
Sometimes, not always, being the big corporation won't get you the best off-the-shelf price. Also, many of times times (as it should be) companies have to input their EIN number to get the price (and usually tax discount)...students need to provide proof of their student status... same for other organizations.
So lets nuke the bitch!
well security programs could be gov't regulated "Ahh thriftway you are limited to seeing the persons first and last name and their picture. Approved or disapproved for the sale" It links up (like a mac machine) to a central database (heavy encryption), retrieves the information.
Now there are companies that might try and misuse this information - and to help give incentive for them to NOT utilize this data heavy penalties could include jail time, and some hefty fees (i.e. 50% of your companies value)...i think marketing firms will be quite reluctant with someone going to jail and hte company losing 50% of their value.
Either way - marketing firms can get your data as it is right now very easily...fingerprint method will only give them fingerprint data on top of what they already know.
with fingerprint, add a pin number and your picture....so when you use your fingerprint the merchant see's your picture. When you use your fingerprint you enter your pin number. Now if the criminal can bypass all of these - you better be slapping your mindreading evil identical twin sibling.
your finger print pops up a picture on a small lcd screen.
Yes and now we will go back to the movie with Sandra Bullock where her entire life was modified. There is always going to be a nay-sayer, there is always going to be a con - but you gotta outweigh the cons with the pros.
Here is a great example - last friday I was robbed at gun point (really I was). They got my money, drivers license, credit cards. Now, luckily, I have a passport (many people do not) - but I do not have access to my credit cards, even my bank gave me problems briefly (i used to work at that bank and know their rules so i shut the teller up quick).
Now if my fingerprint could get me direct access to my money, credit card, drivers license, etc I would 1) not have lost anything 2) not have been robbed since there is nothing to rob. A great benefit that in my opinion outweights the potential that the gov't might look at my bank transactions (which they can do anyhow), or me forgetting my pin number (which i still have a fingerprint)
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but can you add a scsi hard drive into this thing - with all its speed and heat :D
My scsi box is louder then a 747 during take-off
the canadian gov't (and USA companies dealing with canada) are griping because the patriot act forces these companies to give up their information....well if you don't want this to happen - don't bring it into the US borders. Once it's on US land it falls under US jurisdiction.
Years ago (early 90's) there was a show called Beyond 2000 which would feature new and innovative gadgets. One of them was this paper (looked like saran wrap) that would be flavored like some food and you could eat it. It would have all the nutrients you needed....though sorry - i can't see myself getting full on this and while nutrition is important - people generally eat because they are hungry.
I don't consider this asian girl i am seeing my girlfriend - but she sleeps with me, and she is hot - so I might have a better deal then the above guy with a "hot asian girlfriend"
Or you can only use the fingerprint in person, or you need to use it with a secret pass-code. It is much better then a credit card option (and harder to manufacture).
Your statement was made to just scare people.
does everything have to be an evil conspiracy? Is it not possible that bio-metric devices could be used for pure good? Do you really think the gov't needs your fingerprint to track your credit card purchases?
What do you mean get cash outside of the USA? I can get cash in the USA and buy things without being tracked. Now the gov't will know I drew X amount of dollars from my bank, but they won't necessarily know how i spent it (woohooo go strippers).
Personally, I want implant that has all of my information - credit card, drivers license, medical records, house keys, etc.