I am an IT Manager for a group of lawyers, and I love it. Perhaps its because they have a substantial sum of money. Some of my tasks have included "Find a nice MP3 player for me and set it up". Or "I want three computers for my beach house, can you do it for under $12k?". I've spent several friday's at the beach recharing a wireless mouse because it stopped working, or moved a printer from the second floor to the first floor.
The worst part of my job is dealing with voicemail or general phone system issues. You can only tell someone how to do a conference call so many times. On the other hand, sometimes software/hardware does not work as it should. Attorneys don't like to hear that.
I'm not sure I would like the job if I worked for a bunch of tightwads, perhaps that is the situation with everyone else who rates this above sex phone operator.
I was a webmaster at a law firm that was using the Netscape server stuff up until I left this past February. Its hard to be diplomatic in a large law firm when you tell the IT Directory that the website will never be "cutting-edge" as long as they are running an ass-backwards webserver. When I offered up a apache/php/mysql solution, parts of my job were quickly taken away from me.
Thank god I'm out of there.
No offence to any government working/.ers that operate the computers, but having the government offer "free" wireless internet is a horrible idea.
Besides tax dollars being used to kill the competition, you'll end up with a low quality service. The same types of people that work at the DMV will work at the Municpal Internet Department. I'm not talking about the techies that know what they're doing, I'm strictly talking customer support.
Also, why would you want to give the government easier access to your internet data? Most of the folks here are adamently against the Patriot Act, but free governemnt sponsored wireless seems to be okay?
My company uses Verizon with the EvDO cards and have "wireless" everywhere we go, at near cable speeds. Its $80 a month and I get a real human to answer the tech support line after i prompt for English. AT&T and others have very similar solutions.
I can only imagine tech support through the government.
I work for a property rights law firm in Florida and we've started using GIS more and more. Engineering survey maps usually cost a couple bucks to reproduce (which is fine since its not the government doing the surveying) but most of the counties have very easy to use GIS systems. I was somewhat shocked to read this story.
In Orange County you can access aerials several differernt ways. The Property Appraiser has a black and white photo thats available, but if you go directly to the website its available in large color photos. I can piece together a 11x17 comparison map of what is current, and the likely changes to property that will occur once Uncle Sam brings in the bulldozers.
We don't profit off this information, but it sure as hell makes my life easier. I would have such a harder time with it not being freely available. Hopefully those New Englanders can figure out that it SHOULD be available and not even bring up "security and terrorism" to get this cleared up.
I'm mildly confused how something automated can have a "conservative leaning" when people aren't doing the crawling.
No, its not going to crawl through a Ih8tebu5h's livejournal entry for 'news' or other blogger oriented 'news'.
Wasn't there a slashdot article a while ago about Google having a seperate section for bloggers so they didn't skew news? Not that all bloggers are liberal, but most of the internet savvy folks I've met are.
I'm not sure I would advertise "no frills" as Spartan. It seems like "no frills" should be called "inexpensive" or "streamlined". Those are good things that come to mind, not Spartan.
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I am an IT Manager for a group of lawyers, and I love it. Perhaps its because they have a substantial sum of money. Some of my tasks have included "Find a nice MP3 player for me and set it up". Or "I want three computers for my beach house, can you do it for under $12k?". I've spent several friday's at the beach recharing a wireless mouse because it stopped working, or moved a printer from the second floor to the first floor.
The worst part of my job is dealing with voicemail or general phone system issues. You can only tell someone how to do a conference call so many times. On the other hand, sometimes software/hardware does not work as it should. Attorneys don't like to hear that.
I'm not sure I would like the job if I worked for a bunch of tightwads, perhaps that is the situation with everyone else who rates this above sex phone operator.
Strangely, this comment was inspiring.
I was a webmaster at a law firm that was using the Netscape server stuff up until I left this past February. Its hard to be diplomatic in a large law firm when you tell the IT Directory that the website will never be "cutting-edge" as long as they are running an ass-backwards webserver. When I offered up a apache/php/mysql solution, parts of my job were quickly taken away from me. Thank god I'm out of there.
This looked like a poem to me the first time I read it :)
What exactly makes your connectivity low-quality?
No offence to any government working /.ers that operate the computers, but having the government offer "free" wireless internet is a horrible idea.
Besides tax dollars being used to kill the competition, you'll end up with a low quality service. The same types of people that work at the DMV will work at the Municpal Internet Department. I'm not talking about the techies that know what they're doing, I'm strictly talking customer support.
Also, why would you want to give the government easier access to your internet data? Most of the folks here are adamently against the Patriot Act, but free governemnt sponsored wireless seems to be okay?
My company uses Verizon with the EvDO cards and have "wireless" everywhere we go, at near cable speeds. Its $80 a month and I get a real human to answer the tech support line after i prompt for English. AT&T and others have very similar solutions.
I can only imagine tech support through the government.
I work for a property rights law firm in Florida and we've started using GIS more and more. Engineering survey maps usually cost a couple bucks to reproduce (which is fine since its not the government doing the surveying) but most of the counties have very easy to use GIS systems. I was somewhat shocked to read this story.
In Orange County you can access aerials several differernt ways. The Property Appraiser has a black and white photo thats available, but if you go directly to the website its available in large color photos. I can piece together a 11x17 comparison map of what is current, and the likely changes to property that will occur once Uncle Sam brings in the bulldozers.
We don't profit off this information, but it sure as hell makes my life easier. I would have such a harder time with it not being freely available. Hopefully those New Englanders can figure out that it SHOULD be available and not even bring up "security and terrorism" to get this cleared up.
No, its not going to crawl through a Ih8tebu5h's livejournal entry for 'news' or other blogger oriented 'news'.
Wasn't there a slashdot article a while ago about Google having a seperate section for bloggers so they didn't skew news? Not that all bloggers are liberal, but most of the internet savvy folks I've met are.
I'm not sure I would advertise "no frills" as Spartan. It seems like "no frills" should be called "inexpensive" or "streamlined". Those are good things that come to mind, not Spartan.