A better solution would have been to put an "outlook appointment" in his calendar for every single day you were going to be out.
I have a remote manager now, and it's going to require a bit more extra communication between me and him to keep our relationship working. I've at least met him and we have monthly phone calls. It will probably work out as well as any of my other engagements.
My buddy telecommutes, and his new boss wanted him to come into the office once a week for a few months. He later found out that the boss thought he was slacking for working slower than everyone else in the department, until said boss figured out that my buddy is nearly completely blind. Needless to say, (ADA protections aside), they haven't given him any more grief for being 20% slower than everyone else.
Its old, it's dated, it may not even be accurate anymore, but every time I bring up replacing the 15 or so managers here with one secretary, I get funny looks and implied threats of being fired...:-)
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/28/ge.html
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Tell you what. Break the MS Office stranglehold on Industry, and the rest will naturally come into about. We'll have choice in OSes again as MS has to compete for real.
So get cracking on making OpenOffice better. That's where you should be spending your time.
It had Win32s for it's Windows 3.1 support layer, which was well-acknowledged at the time to be a nearly complete miscarriage of an implementation. If something was written for Win32s, you had a 50/50 shot of it working properly with standard Win32.
And odds are they were using the Watcom Compiler, who's Windows support I considered shit. OS/2 and protected mode DOS however, it was pretty solid.
No, you know what's dangerous? Running your critical business apps on a DG/UX platform.
That's dangerous. At least with an Intel platform there's lots of dust-bins filled with PC parts cast-off you could use to put together something that'll run, even from twenty years ago.
Finding replacement parts for a 20 yo Data General platform becomes very expensive very quick.
Except try copying data over the network from a USB 2.0 drive. You'll notice the performance hit.
PCs have never figured out how to get different chipsets to talk to each other, without needing the OS to handle the transaction for you (except video cards).
And PCs are still stuck with a single framebuffer. All that silicon and power available to us, and I can't have two framebuffers?
Are you kidding? I was running OS/2 back in the day (1994-1997) and IBM did not just drop it. They picked a really weird campaign to promote OS/2 Warp (as in hippy warped, and not Warp-speed). What really killed IBM was the existing Microsoft OEM licensing - there just wasn't a chance to get OS/2 in the marketplace.
When a computer cost $1500-$2000 for just the low-end, a $250 OS price difference on top of that was a non-starter. If Windows95 has to stand on it's own on the shelf at Computer City or CompUSA like OS/2 did, it might, *MIGHT*, be a different world now.
iTunes is on Windows, and that threatens OSX EVERY DAY. The reason they don't is the same reason other people don't want to run on Linux - 1: it's a moving target, and 2: the DRM angle (even if it is already cracked).
I cheer Apple and their mission to keep Flash off the i* devices. Flash is a scourge upon the web that must be purged.
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Okay, I'll use a real world example. Mandate from on-high: no one, not even the CxOs had a mailbox bigger than 20MB (you got it, 20MB - I've written poems longer than that). Nevermind the fact that for CxOs and executives it was utter bullshit, it was supposedly to avoid regulatory issues with keeping mail. All mail was expunged after 45 days no matter what.
Well, being an Exchange shop, people took to moving their email to their archive.PSTs, and soon 150+ employees were storing multiple 2GB+ email archives on various bits of file storage that we had to back up anyway. A full 3/4 TB of outlook archives. Nevermind I'm from the Spolsky school of "don't lock your corporate knowledge up in email" it's a waste of resources, but I was threatened several times with termination from a local VP if I tried to enforce the Mega-Corp standards.
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There's no such thing as a "real" unix. There are only levels of compliance with POSIX standards.
It's bad enough I have 100 tabs open, each with an AJAX-y background javascript thread running pulling updates. What I really want is a browser managed threadpool that restricts that to a sane number. Seriously, I can get firefox to routinely suck down 25% of my CPU just sitting doing nothing (with 168 tabs)... if you consider that nothing.
If you spend any amount of time on a farm, you probably know all there is to know about pregnancy and procreation other than the actual "practical hands-on experience" by the time you're 8. And Washington State has a LOT of farms.
Except as cool as she is, Kari Byron was/is still a girls girl. She squeals when pigs explode, and she doesn't have goober-collecting metal hanging out of her nostrils.
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A better solution would have been to put an "outlook appointment" in his calendar for every single day you were going to be out.
I have a remote manager now, and it's going to require a bit more extra communication between me and him to keep our relationship working. I've at least met him and we have monthly phone calls. It will probably work out as well as any of my other engagements.
My buddy telecommutes, and his new boss wanted him to come into the office once a week for a few months. He later found out that the boss thought he was slacking for working slower than everyone else in the department, until said boss figured out that my buddy is nearly completely blind. Needless to say, (ADA protections aside), they haven't given him any more grief for being 20% slower than everyone else.
Not yet, but I'm writing a web version of a system based on jclaim that could do this... And open-source meebo.com, if you would.
I would argue that if saving chat logs is bad for the company, the company is doing something wrong.
Those chatlogs might prove that you spent many man years trying to find this bug that caused stuck gas pedals and couldn't.
Then again, in America, BREATHING is likely to be bad for the company.
Its old, it's dated, it may not even be accurate anymore, but every time I bring up replacing the 15 or so managers here with one secretary, I get funny looks and implied threats of being fired... :-)
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/28/ge.html
Tell you what. Break the MS Office stranglehold on Industry, and the rest will naturally come into about. We'll have choice in OSes again as MS has to compete for real.
So get cracking on making OpenOffice better. That's where you should be spending your time.
services may generate revenue, but hardware generate profit.
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This is the dumbest thing I've seen all day.
sales+services generate revenue
costs less than revenue == profit
Um, OS/2 never had a WindowsNT 3.51 emulator.
It had Win32s for it's Windows 3.1 support layer, which was well-acknowledged at the time to be a nearly complete miscarriage of an implementation. If something was written for Win32s, you had a 50/50 shot of it working properly with standard Win32.
And odds are they were using the Watcom Compiler, who's Windows support I considered shit. OS/2 and protected mode DOS however, it was pretty solid.
No, you know what's dangerous? Running your critical business apps on a DG/UX platform.
That's dangerous. At least with an Intel platform there's lots of dust-bins filled with PC parts cast-off you could use to put together something that'll run, even from twenty years ago.
Finding replacement parts for a 20 yo Data General platform becomes very expensive very quick.
Except try copying data over the network from a USB 2.0 drive. You'll notice the performance hit.
PCs have never figured out how to get different chipsets to talk to each other, without needing the OS to handle the transaction for you (except video cards).
And PCs are still stuck with a single framebuffer. All that silicon and power available to us, and I can't have two framebuffers?
-Chris
Are you kidding? I was running OS/2 back in the day (1994-1997) and IBM did not just drop it. They picked a really weird campaign to promote OS/2 Warp (as in hippy warped, and not Warp-speed). What really killed IBM was the existing Microsoft OEM licensing - there just wasn't a chance to get OS/2 in the marketplace.
When a computer cost $1500-$2000 for just the low-end, a $250 OS price difference on top of that was a non-starter. If Windows95 has to stand on it's own on the shelf at Computer City or CompUSA like OS/2 did, it might, *MIGHT*, be a different world now.
That's a great idea, how about an OS whose API is Boost and QT?
I want NASA to set up a long term facility in NEO with greenhouses. Stack an 8-10m plexi tube on a rocket and attach it to the ISS.
Remember kids, sexual assault != rape.
But I'd bet the statistic for sexual assault against women is closer to 80% than 25%.
Except they have absolutely no power to do anything about it.
Where have you been? This is what has passed for news on Slashdot since 1997.
At least we're getting fewer dupes these days.
The have a monopoly on MP3 players and smartphones that run iPhone/iPod OS. That's it.
ZOMG, I get to sue Microsoft for not supporting Java on my Zune!?!?!
iTunes is on Windows, and that threatens OSX EVERY DAY. The reason they don't is the same reason other people don't want to run on Linux - 1: it's a moving target, and 2: the DRM angle (even if it is already cracked).
I cheer Apple and their mission to keep Flash off the i* devices. Flash is a scourge upon the web that must be purged.
Okay, I'll use a real world example. Mandate from on-high: no one, not even the CxOs had a mailbox bigger than 20MB (you got it, 20MB - I've written poems longer than that). Nevermind the fact that for CxOs and executives it was utter bullshit, it was supposedly to avoid regulatory issues with keeping mail. All mail was expunged after 45 days no matter what.
.PSTs, and soon 150+ employees were storing multiple 2GB+ email archives on various bits of file storage that we had to back up anyway. A full 3/4 TB of outlook archives. Nevermind I'm from the Spolsky school of "don't lock your corporate knowledge up in email" it's a waste of resources, but I was threatened several times with termination from a local VP if I tried to enforce the Mega-Corp standards.
Well, being an Exchange shop, people took to moving their email to their archive
There's no such thing as a "real" unix. There are only levels of compliance with POSIX standards.
Seriously? Javascript threads are a BAD IDEA.
It's bad enough I have 100 tabs open, each with an AJAX-y background javascript thread running pulling updates. What I really want is a browser managed threadpool that restricts that to a sane number. Seriously, I can get firefox to routinely suck down 25% of my CPU just sitting doing nothing (with 168 tabs)... if you consider that nothing.
If you spend any amount of time on a farm, you probably know all there is to know about pregnancy and procreation other than the actual "practical hands-on experience" by the time you're 8. And Washington State has a LOT of farms.
Except as cool as she is, Kari Byron was/is still a girls girl. She squeals when pigs explode, and she doesn't have goober-collecting metal hanging out of her nostrils.
My god, the summary leads you to believe they actually made a designer "space-suit", you know, for EVAs. At least that's what it led *me* to believe.
This is GAP for the Japanese Space Agency. Boo!
Man, legs like those could wrap around you twice!
Must be a slow news day.
I would be willing to be that there is STILL more COBOL in production today than any other language.