Not all jobs that involve telecommuting can be outsourced. I do a three month call rotation. When on call, I'm available 24x7. The 5% of the problems that require a site visit require me to get there within 2 hours. Try that from India!
The two hours a day I drive to work and back are gone from my life forever. What a waste, sitting in a car.for 2 hours a day, every day for your entire life. Gone forever.
Come on Google. Create a YouPatent.com site for the little guy to flood the world with frivolous software patents. (They also need your expertise and money to file them too, hint, hint.).
I still love watching the Movie Aliens but what I still find funny is that Mother can understand the spoken word but is unable to perform text to speech which is the trivial part of the verbal communication between man and machine.
One mans troll is another mans hero. All to many times I hear the cry of "troll" and sure enough out come the torches, pitch forks and mod -1 Troll, well before anyone has properly read and moderated the post, only to have someone with mod points save the comment from obscurity. Care must be taken to not completely silence discussion. BTW what ever happend to my mod points?
Sorry to disagree. I;ve replaced my porch lights for 30 years, every other month until I finally tried a CFL. I was skeptical with the weather swings. Guess what, after two years and -25 F in Vermont, it still is going strong. Yes a little slow to start but the light of 60W equivalent is just fine.
Windows is NOT universal for medical record storage. Linux and AS400 are very much in use. Also windows does not silently push our any patches to our network. Each one is reviewed and approved before distribution to our workstations and servers using wsus. HIPPA is taken very seriously at all levels in our hospital and our IS organization. Our CIO literally stays up nights worrying over potential security holes.
Instead of using their war chest to buy politicians to shut down a free advertiser (Pandora) they show lobby to help restore the middle class.
Limited music choices is a bad enough reason no to buy, but having no discretionary spending is first on my list for not buying music this year.
Mod this insightful person a 5 AND copy/mod as troll for me so see too.
More truth in these few paragraphs than I have seen anywhere in the press (or here for that matter) for months.
Mod me down like always.
May be it time we get our act together like the north African and mid east Arab states. Looks like we could learn something like them and "SPEAK UP".
We live in a democracy, yet we sit on our couches.
Your all witnesses.
I wish to lay claim to patenting the act of patenting the obvious.
While at it I wish to patent the act of posting to Slashdot.
Pay up my pretties.
As it stand it probably will not kill anyone. OTOH add a second mirror driven by a very simple robotic car to capture to rays at the focal point and reflect them back to a central focal point where the energy could be harnessed. Now THAT would result in a DEATH RAY!
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Punish the corporation? Fine them a pittance.
{until hell_freezes_over}
The people making the decisions should be the target.
Giving a Corporation a small fine that is passed on to stockholders and consumers does not take the incentive away from the CEO/CIO.
As a SENIOR staff member @55, it "resemble" that remark!
IBM use to promote work at home, home at work. Don't know if they still do. More lip service anyway.
My advice is not to get too chummy (overtly) at the work place, making it too family oriented is not all good.
Keep the work professional and "on task" keeps folk as better more productive workers and happier, of all age mixes. Yes, you can still have fun but your there to your job to do. It also helps to keep the inevitable work place politics to a minimum.
The fact that he's making such misinformed claims in apparent ignorance indicates that he has another agenda, one of which we currently know nothing. The agenda is control. Information is control. The leaders in information control are based in Beijing. They are called bed fellows.
Murdock is all about massaging the facts to present what he wants others to see, regardless of the truth i.e. Fox News.
I'm all for this cattle herding technology (not that I'm not dabbling with it myself). It will free up the back roads as people use sat/nav/google maps to find a path between points. The cops will follow too. This eases congestion on my commute, saving both time and fuel cost.
Hey A. Coward Troll,
You post as AS from inside of IBM?
He's right about IBM and you know it. Everything he said about IBM is correct. I lost my programming job there 5 years ago only to have it offered back as a contract laborer at 1/2 my former wages, no bennies.
No thanks.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't you call me an activist!
This is Slashdot where we are all arm chair passive-ist not activist. Lots of talk and NO action.
Not all jobs that involve telecommuting can be outsourced. I do a three month call rotation. When on call, I'm available 24x7. The 5% of the problems that require a site visit require me to get there within 2 hours. Try that from India! The two hours a day I drive to work and back are gone from my life forever. What a waste, sitting in a car.for 2 hours a day, every day for your entire life. Gone forever.
Come on Google. Create a YouPatent.com site for the little guy to flood the world with frivolous software patents. (They also need your expertise and money to file them too, hint, hint.).
Standing by and letting the Republicans get their way is pretty lame. The Democrats for the last 12 years have been total wimps!
You can kill T2 by breaking him up into little pieces. ATT either.
I still love watching the Movie Aliens but what I still find funny is that Mother can understand the spoken word but is unable to perform text to speech which is the trivial part of the verbal communication between man and machine.
One mans troll is another mans hero. All to many times I hear the cry of "troll" and sure enough out come the torches, pitch forks and mod -1 Troll, well before anyone has properly read and moderated the post, only to have someone with mod points save the comment from obscurity. Care must be taken to not completely silence discussion. BTW what ever happend to my mod points?
Another patriotic naming convention (i.e. Patriot Act). It will be an easy sell. It's all about control. Nothing more than control.
Yes, the Earth and the Moon share the same orbit too.
Sorry to disagree. I;ve replaced my porch lights for 30 years, every other month until I finally tried a CFL. I was skeptical with the weather swings. Guess what, after two years and -25 F in Vermont, it still is going strong. Yes a little slow to start but the light of 60W equivalent is just fine.
Windows is NOT universal for medical record storage. Linux and AS400 are very much in use. Also windows does not silently push our any patches to our network. Each one is reviewed and approved before distribution to our workstations and servers using wsus. HIPPA is taken very seriously at all levels in our hospital and our IS organization. Our CIO literally stays up nights worrying over potential security holes.
Instead of using their war chest to buy politicians to shut down a free advertiser (Pandora) they show lobby to help restore the middle class. Limited music choices is a bad enough reason no to buy, but having no discretionary spending is first on my list for not buying music this year.
You hit the nail on the head.
Mod this insightful person a 5 AND copy/mod as troll for me so see too. More truth in these few paragraphs than I have seen anywhere in the press (or here for that matter) for months.
Mod me down like always. May be it time we get our act together like the north African and mid east Arab states. Looks like we could learn something like them and "SPEAK UP". We live in a democracy, yet we sit on our couches.
Finally an opportunity for a slashdotter to breed.
Moderators suck the life blood out of slashdot and we know they are 100% male. Mod me a TROLL today.
Your all witnesses. I wish to lay claim to patenting the act of patenting the obvious. While at it I wish to patent the act of posting to Slashdot. Pay up my pretties.
As it stand it probably will not kill anyone. OTOH add a second mirror driven by a very simple robotic car to capture to rays at the focal point and reflect them back to a central focal point where the energy could be harnessed. Now THAT would result in a DEATH RAY!
do{ Punish the corporation? Fine them a pittance. {until hell_freezes_over} The people making the decisions should be the target. Giving a Corporation a small fine that is passed on to stockholders and consumers does not take the incentive away from the CEO/CIO.
As a SENIOR staff member @55, it "resemble" that remark! IBM use to promote work at home, home at work. Don't know if they still do. More lip service anyway. My advice is not to get too chummy (overtly) at the work place, making it too family oriented is not all good. Keep the work professional and "on task" keeps folk as better more productive workers and happier, of all age mixes. Yes, you can still have fun but your there to your job to do. It also helps to keep the inevitable work place politics to a minimum.
ditto!
The fact that he's making such misinformed claims in apparent ignorance indicates that he has another agenda, one of which we currently know nothing.
The agenda is control. Information is control. The leaders in information control are based in Beijing. They are called bed fellows.
Murdock is all about massaging the facts to present what he wants others to see, regardless of the truth i.e. Fox News.
I'm all for this cattle herding technology (not that I'm not dabbling with it myself). It will free up the back roads as people use sat/nav/google maps to find a path between points. The cops will follow too. This eases congestion on my commute, saving both time and fuel cost.
Hey A. Coward Troll, You post as AS from inside of IBM? He's right about IBM and you know it. Everything he said about IBM is correct. I lost my programming job there 5 years ago only to have it offered back as a contract laborer at 1/2 my former wages, no bennies. No thanks.