How do they keep people from smoking in these things or keeping people from trashing them?
Spilled coffee
Someone's kid getting car sick
Fast food wrappers
Someone's homless person or dog shitting all over the thing?
Seems like their would be a huge reduction of accountibility for these cars.
Exactly the cost to install and maintain a tracking system isn't cheap. It has gotten pretty inexpensive, but why not create an incentive system for your employees to perform better instead. Give bonuses to people like this parent who work their ass off and managers know they work hard.
You get someone who is a good manager and encourages people to do their best rather than breath down their necks all the time will have better employees and will be able to retain them.
You will always have people who do the minimum to keep their job and no more, GPS system or not. Thats fine keep them there at low level jobs and low pay where they belong. Reward people who work hard and do more than their share. Unions and their damn senority systems are what the real problem is for these companies.
So how long does it take for the Union workers to figure out if they all work really slow they can still stick it to the company GPS or not.
If they can all bring down the stats collectively then what is a company going to do.
Don't get me wrong I think trying to get more work out of your workers is a great idea but there are better way to encourage them to do it other than with a chair and whip.
From the article: "If you're not out there baby-sitting them, you don't know how long it takes to do the route. The guy could be driving around the world, he could be at his girlfriend's house"
If these managers would manage better then they could save money by not having to micromanage and actually do their job. Maybe they should hire better employees?
No. "Users" like their free crap. So they are willing to give out their e-mail address because it seems inocent enough. Then 2-3 months later they get their "free" spam and still haven't learned their lessons.
AOL just released a press release saying their spam protection is working. We all know that is because the block pretty much everything but their own mail servers on a whim.
Just another/. slow news day
I'm probably the only person who thinks this is a really good list. They focused on new technologies being developed in Universities and not what we have already done. The Mars rover isn't anything new. We have had the technology to do it for years. All of these advances will not be seen for years to come.
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How do they keep people from smoking in these things or keeping people from trashing them? Spilled coffee Someone's kid getting car sick Fast food wrappers Someone's homless person or dog shitting all over the thing? Seems like their would be a huge reduction of accountibility for these cars.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/21/012320 4&tid=222&tid=1
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/21/012320 4&tid=222&tid=1
How long before we get a similar /. article for cars?
Exactly the cost to install and maintain a tracking system isn't cheap. It has gotten pretty inexpensive, but why not create an incentive system for your employees to perform better instead. Give bonuses to people like this parent who work their ass off and managers know they work hard.
You get someone who is a good manager and encourages people to do their best rather than breath down their necks all the time will have better employees and will be able to retain them.
You will always have people who do the minimum to keep their job and no more, GPS system or not. Thats fine keep them there at low level jobs and low pay where they belong. Reward people who work hard and do more than their share. Unions and their damn senority systems are what the real problem is for these companies.
Has anyone played with one of these cracked version to see how the network/application works?
HEHE well I must have missed that /. article
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41733
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But they are still easy to get. So why the hype to stop selling little mW lasers that don't aren't computer operated?
Don't worry. They are just testing out the new satelites equiped to shoot down terrorist planes.. ooops I mean ICBM missles.
Well if people would put tops to their shark tanks we wouldn't be having this problem, now would we?
So how long does it take for the Union workers to figure out if they all work really slow they can still stick it to the company GPS or not.
If they can all bring down the stats collectively then what is a company going to do.
Don't get me wrong I think trying to get more work out of your workers is a great idea but there are better way to encourage them to do it other than with a chair and whip.
But will it stop a union shops? Next thing you you'll have a pager attached to your belt while you are at your cushie office job too.
From the article: "If you're not out there baby-sitting them, you don't know how long it takes to do the route. The guy could be driving around the world, he could be at his girlfriend's house" If these managers would manage better then they could save money by not having to micromanage and actually do their job. Maybe they should hire better employees?
No. "Users" like their free crap. So they are willing to give out their e-mail address because it seems inocent enough. Then 2-3 months later they get their "free" spam and still haven't learned their lessons.
With just a shovel that can be fixed. The hard part is getting the head to stay log enough to bury it.
Atleast the NYTime ad we go a little bit of satisfaction. The personal ad would have gotten no where.
AOL just released a press release saying their spam protection is working. We all know that is because the block pretty much everything but their own mail servers on a whim. Just another /. slow news day
I'm probably the only person who thinks this is a really good list. They focused on new technologies being developed in Universities and not what we have already done. The Mars rover isn't anything new. We have had the technology to do it for years. All of these advances will not be seen for years to come.