From Wikipedia the population is just over 60 million which gives it a population roughly equivalent to the UK so 30K civil servants isn't that outrageous - especially as they inherited their civil service from the UK. Furthermore
The sixth most populous state in the Indian Union, Tamil Nadu has the largest urban agglomeration nationwide. Increases in literacy have caused Tamil Nadu to report the second lowest decadal growth in population in India. Globalisation brought increased export opportunities, making Tamil Nadu the fifth largest economy among the states of India. The growing demands for skilled labour have caused the increased number of educational institutions in Tamil Nadu. It has the highest number of vocational training institutions in India. Chennai, which was known until 1996 as Madras, is the fourth largest city of India and the state capital. Chennai is the home of Marina Beach, one of longest beaches in the world. Madurai, Coimbatore, Tiruchirapalli, Salem, Thirunelveli and Tiruppur are other large cities (Corporations) of Tamil Nadu. so it's not exactly a quiet backwater.
"It is important to stay positive, even when you get irritated or discouraged, because few subordinate-supervisor relationships last forever," he said. "You want the next boss to know what you can do for the company." I've worked with (note, with, not for) my current boss for ten years or so. Most of the Unix support team I work for have worked together for that sort of length of time. Whilst this may mark me out as stick-in-the mud and unambitious the benefits of working with a team that you know realy well and can trust completely are one of the biggest job related benefits I know. You would have to offer me 20K GBP over and above what I earn now (which is about industry average) to make me even think of changing jobs.
Is it me or is there a staggering paucity of new ideas around at the moment. If you discount the remakes and the 'let's do another one's there's precious little around now that's truly original. Much as I loved the Indianna Jones movies can't we have a new hero once in a while.
As the ice melts, Greenland becomes literally green.
It will take a few more years (or even decades) yet. It might not even happen, we should stop calling it 'Global Warming' and start calling it 'Climate Change' otherwise it gives this idea that everywhere will become some sort of tropical paradise. We Brits could do with some warming but, if some of the predictions about the gulf stream are correct, we'll actually get colder.
Maybe I'm a grumpy old git but.... Back inte 60's when I was a teenager, or posibly more relevantly in 1971 when I was eighteen, we were all far more politically aware. We Brits didn't have the draft but we were there on the anti war demos. Those cheese eating surender monkeys in Paris didn't have the draft but they manned the baricades. Sure, with the benefit of thirty odd years hindsight we were young and foolish and love, peace and acid didn't change the world that much but we were involved.
Is it just me, or did they spend almost twice as much on marketing as they did in the same quarter, previous year? Yes, that's what the figures say, and maybe an increase in marketing is the driver for the increase in turnover. However I'm more impressed by the line below
Sales and marketing 37,575 20,505 105,883 61,296 Research and development 19,200 9,644 51,084 29,846 General and administrative 18,024 12,357 49,579 34,067
which shows a greater, in %age terms, increase in R&D, and the next line which shows an much smaller increase in 'General and adminstrative'
It seems to me that a company concetrating on R&D and marketing is one which is healthy. The (dis)organisation I work for seem to have got that one arse about face!
Re:Since when is a corporation "cool"?
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Since when is a corporation cool - since forever, that's when. It's called brand image. It is such a significant part of most purchasing decisions that companies will spend huge parts of their advertising budgets enhancing it. Indeed, most ads are selling a lifestyle aspiration, not functionality. i.e. 'drive a MyCarName because it's cool, not 'drive a MyCarName because it gets good gas milage'.
We/.ers are far too Intelligent to fall for this sort of thing and always make purchasing decisions based on rational argement. And if you'll believe that....
So if Z was selling dangerous toys, then other people could properly stop him.
But that is the only basis for doing so So your fine with someone selling heroine to schoolkids, or kiddie porn, or whatever...
Unless you receive your morality from a religious source, and I would argue, even then, all moral statements are relativistic and derived from society. Quoting JSM is all very well but as limited as quoting sole examples from Marx, Mao, Nietzsche or Adam Smith. Back here in the real world comunities have gathered together to choose how they wish to live together using quasi democratic processes to attempt to achieve some sort of concensus. You might say that this is compromising freedom and liberty, I would say that it's the natural state for a social animal like man. If you want to live on your own then you can make ALL the rules, but if you live with me then we've got to decide how to get along with each other. These comunities then have the right to say to suppliers 'either supply on our terms or we'll chose someone else' just as much as the suppliers have the right not to chose to supply.
On the other hand a community can decide whether to allow anyone to conduct a business unless they meet certain criteria. The right to conduct unregulated business isn't God given.
Making money should be a secondary concern to their primary purpose - delivering good tv to a British audience. By making money out of the spin-offs from the broadcasts you receive for the ludicrously low price of 130 GBP the BBC is able to pay for things like 'Life On Earth' and 'Strictly Come Dancing'.
It is beholden on the BBC to chase up any money raising venture within the confines of its charter, or, you're left with the choice between ads or rubbish.
I can confirm that a major British bank uses nothing older than WinNT on the desktops for the back office. It's a closed network so the security issues are less and there is no driver to upgrade to anything later, indeed, there are plenty of economic drivers to keep the PCs on NT.
The problem with insisting on full change management protocols is the same problem as with hyper tight security. If you make things too difficult then people will find ways round it.
For example, in the organisation I work for make a change involves a seven page document with a five working day lead time. On the other hand, changing configuration in response to a customer complaint can be done instantaneously with the minimum of paperwork. So, if you want to get something done, get a customer to raise a complaint to avoid the paperwork.
Untill you're on call, it's 4 am., the system's down, and you're trying to fix somethign that was amended by another team member . All of a sudden you become a HUGE fan of documentation, and, next morning, you tend to explain your new found zeal in no uncertain terms to the person who amended the port numbers without amending the documentation.
The biggest problem with documenation is that we're all too busy keeping the systems running to write up what we did. It therefore is neccessary to use a system where
It's easy to amend/update
Access is controllable
The content is searchable
All this screams Wiki to me. If you're capable of setting up the sort of VMWare system you describe then installing Wikimedia will be a piece of cake.
Did you know that NASA, in collusion with certain three-letter-acronym government organizations, has already developed a meteor shield? Just keep taking the medication!
The whole article reinforces just how little we know about what happens 'out there'. Most asronomy is extrapolating from very sketchy data to produce posibilities.
What I do know is that, here in the UK, there will be no point in going out to have a look unless you want to get cold and wet- all you'll see is rain and more rain.
Techie:- We need to keep more backups of our e-mail database
Bean Counter:- How much do the tapes cost
Techie:- Lots - we need at least one DLT per backup
Bean Counter:- We can't afford it.
Techie:- We have to afford it
Bean Counter:- Just leave the requisition in my intray
Months Pass
Bean Counter:- The courts are on to us. Where are the e-mail backups for the 1st December 2006
Techie:- I had to overwrite them so as to keep a reasonabley current backup
Judge:- Techie, you shredded evidence - now you're for it
Most UK stores refuse credit/debit cards for payments under £10 ($18 or so). The associated costs are too high. Additionally it takes quite a while for the payment to go through. So, if I go to the corner shop for a pint of milk or a copy of the paper it's quicker, easier, and cheaper to pay cash.
And what's wrong with cash, particularly in small amounts? The technology has been proven over millenia. It works, it really does.
For that round of drinks in a bar (well, OK, maybe that one)
To give a minor donation to a charity you approve of
I run nearly cashless, but I still can't do without it. And, as an example of the problems with US currency, I once, on a business trip to the states, tipped a waiter $100. Fortunately he took pity on this rather tipsy foriegner and pointed out my mistake.
Oh, and by the way, if you come to my home poker game, bring cash!
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Is it me or is there a staggering paucity of new ideas around at the moment. If you discount the remakes and the 'let's do another one's there's precious little around now that's truly original. Much as I loved the Indianna Jones movies can't we have a new hero once in a while.
Maybe I'm a grumpy old git but....
Back inte 60's when I was a teenager, or posibly more relevantly in 1971 when I was eighteen, we were all far more politically aware. We Brits didn't have the draft but we were there on the anti war demos. Those cheese eating surender monkeys in Paris didn't have the draft but they manned the baricades. Sure, with the benefit of thirty odd years hindsight we were young and foolish and love, peace and acid didn't change the world that much but we were involved.
At the risk of being modded down for a 'me too' post the political apathy of the current 18-25 year olds backs up your comment.
It seems to me that a company concetrating on R&D and marketing is one which is healthy. The (dis)organisation I work for seem to have got that one arse about face!
Since when is a corporation cool - since forever, that's when. It's called brand image. It is such a significant part of most purchasing decisions that companies will spend huge parts of their advertising budgets enhancing it. Indeed, most ads are selling a lifestyle aspiration, not functionality. i.e. 'drive a MyCarName because it's cool, not 'drive a MyCarName because it gets good gas milage'.
/.ers are far too Intelligent to fall for this sort of thing and always make purchasing decisions based on rational argement. And if you'll believe that....
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And Duke Nukem Forever.
But that is the only basis for doing so So your fine with someone selling heroine to schoolkids, or kiddie porn, or whatever...
Unless you receive your morality from a religious source, and I would argue, even then, all moral statements are relativistic and derived from society. Quoting JSM is all very well but as limited as quoting sole examples from Marx, Mao, Nietzsche or Adam Smith.
Back here in the real world comunities have gathered together to choose how they wish to live together using quasi democratic processes to attempt to achieve some sort of concensus. You might say that this is compromising freedom and liberty, I would say that it's the natural state for a social animal like man. If you want to live on your own then you can make ALL the rules, but if you live with me then we've got to decide how to get along with each other. These comunities then have the right to say to suppliers 'either supply on our terms or we'll chose someone else' just as much as the suppliers have the right not to chose to supply.
On the other hand a community can decide whether to allow anyone to conduct a business unless they meet certain criteria. The right to conduct unregulated business isn't God given.
It is beholden on the BBC to chase up any money raising venture within the confines of its charter, or, you're left with the choice between ads or rubbish.
I can confirm that a major British bank uses nothing older than WinNT on the desktops for the back office. It's a closed network so the security issues are less and there is no driver to upgrade to anything later, indeed, there are plenty of economic drivers to keep the PCs on NT.
For example, in the organisation I work for make a change involves a seven page document with a five working day lead time. On the other hand, changing configuration in response to a customer complaint can be done instantaneously with the minimum of paperwork. So, if you want to get something done, get a customer to raise a complaint to avoid the paperwork.
As such over complex systems are self defeating.
Untill you're on call, it's 4 am., the system's down, and you're trying to fix somethign that was amended by another team member . All of a sudden you become a HUGE fan of documentation, and, next morning, you tend to explain your new found zeal in no uncertain terms to the person who amended the port numbers without amending the documentation.
- It's easy to amend/update
- Access is controllable
- The content is searchable
All this screams Wiki to me. If you're capable of setting up the sort of VMWare system you describe then installing Wikimedia will be a piece of cake.What I do know is that, here in the UK, there will be no point in going out to have a look unless you want to get cold and wet- all you'll see is rain and more rain.
Techie:- We need to keep more backups of our e-mail database
Bean Counter:- How much do the tapes cost
Techie:- Lots - we need at least one DLT per backup
Bean Counter:- We can't afford it.
Techie:- We have to afford it
Bean Counter:- Just leave the requisition in my intray
Months Pass
Bean Counter:- The courts are on to us. Where are the e-mail backups for the 1st December 2006
Techie:- I had to overwrite them so as to keep a reasonabley current backup
Judge:- Techie, you shredded evidence - now you're for it
Most UK stores refuse credit/debit cards for payments under £10 ($18 or so). The associated costs are too high. Additionally it takes quite a while for the payment to go through. So, if I go to the corner shop for a pint of milk or a copy of the paper it's quicker, easier, and cheaper to pay cash.
And what's wrong with cash, particularly in small amounts? The technology has been proven over millenia. It works, it really does.
- In a taxi
- to pay for a newspaper costing less than a dollar
- For that round of drinks in a bar (well, OK, maybe that one)
- To give a minor donation to a charity you approve of
I run nearly cashless, but I still can't do without it. And, as an example of the problems with US currency, I once, on a business trip to the states, tipped a waiter $100. Fortunately he took pity on this rather tipsy foriegner and pointed out my mistake.Oh, and by the way, if you come to my home poker game, bring cash!
to see stockbrokers being made redundant by machinery.
Many thanks for a coherent and understandable (for particle physics!) response. As ever I'm left going 'Wow' Have fun with your magnets.