HR where I work is considered critical management function, yet we went without anyone doing HR for 3 months do to the staff en mass fleeing the company... On the other hand my job as the network admin is seen as trivial support staff, yet I take a day off because I'm sick and I get a dozen calls (while in the doctor's office for part of it) requiring something to be done 'now'.
This is the disconnect with management that IT faces regularly.
1) Sometimes IT is handed a raw deal by those that came before... The network I'm handed is a mess... I'd love to fix the issues the real way (ie spending money to repair or replace everything), but Management won't got for that... So instead I do more duck tape and super glue fixes... After a year I'm down to random failures only a couple times a day...
2) Sometimes it's not IT that causes drama, but management tying IT's hands. For instance I had a series of printers die... The manufacturer basically told me to sod off and not bother them again about their shitty printers. So I had to put in a request for new printers, which needs to bounce through a dozen layers of management cruft before they can be ordered. In the meantime I have people that are screaming at me because they don't have printers... Before this year even started I suggested having spar printers on hand for emergencies like this, but management vetoed anything more than we absolutely had to have. So Drama happens and it's not my fault, but I'm left holding the bag...
Wow, sure if the two sides both wanted peace that might work. From what I've seen (& that includes from people who live there), every attempt from the 'Israeli' side has been meet by an increase in violence by the other. Your view would condemn them to stand there and take assault after assault until in the end they can't take it anymore and snap back. In fact that pretty well describes some previous attempts at settling things. It hardly helps that most Muslim states nearby refused to call Israel a country and seek to spur on the Palestinians after their own violence was repelled. Maybe you should dig a little deeper and see that it's all a huge ball of grey, with no black and white and far to much suffering on both sides to simply back down and accept death?
Just be glad that you don't work where I do... I'm the director of IT/Network Admin/All in one tech staff and I make less then the Head of maintenance who has a 6 person staff...
Lol, as the spread of malicious software indicates windows users have no problems managing to install any and all harmful software out there even if they would have no clue how to install office or a alternative web browser... But give them the "Shopping network toolbar" & by god they will never have a problem getting that installed...
In my state (PA) even parents can no longer paddle their kids, let alone teachers or principals. In my day and age they could and getting a paddlin' meant somethin' and you never wanted to do whatever you had done again.
Now it's evil and wrong and will get the police and child services after you like maggots in roadkill. I had a friend who spent nearly a year fighting to get her kids back after child services took her kids away when she swatted the ass of her 8 year old on her front lawn for misbehaving and a neighbor called child services on her for it. A year of hell and courts because she tried to discipline her own child. And we wonder why so many young adults end up in jail when they never learned to behave in the first place.
Well I'm late on replying to, but as I work for a school I'll make a comment on the audio tape thing:
Depending on state and local rules on the recording of voices this may be impossible to do. In my state (PA), it would require permission to record in writing from every parent of every kid in the class to record that conversation as well as permission from the Principal, CAO (Chief Academic Officer), and/or superintendent for the school district. I can tell you know it would take months to get that permission.
My school has video cameras it can't legally run, because no one looked into the issues well enough before they installed them a few years back. It is a quite literal pain in the ass to try to get recordings of video or audio of anything happening in our school. Kids with foster homes and or kids actually from orphanages are the worst. Those are impossible to record legally in my state, any time they do get recorded or photographed by accident we are required to immediately delete those recordings and/or destroy the disk/tapes/media.
I'll add that in fact most social programs do make it harder for people to start working. My Ex is a good example. The government was giving her more money per month then she could (and at one point did) making 1.5 times minimum wage. It was a no brainer that she'd stop working when they told her she would loose her assistance for 'making to much'. When your total assistance is higher than the highest level you can earn on assistance, then their is a huge gap that must be overcome to get out of public assistance... A gap only experience can overcome, and those jobs giving experience place you outside assistance... It's a catch 22 for most who do want to better themselves... She's going back to school for a nursing because currently pay for nurses is sufficient even starting out to break that barrier...
Or own an AMD cpu powered computer and turn on Cool & Quiet. It under-clocks your cpu when you don't need it and powers it back up when you do. It's usually enabled in all their laptops (& has been for around 5 years) and can be turned on for most desktops in your motherboards bios.
My 'new' PC saves me $50/month on my electric bill over the old while being faster when I need it.
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Nvidia wanted nothing to do with joining with AMD. Yet AMD wanted to buy into graphics technology. Who else was there to buy?
Personally I'm quite happy with the move, even if you'll see most of Slashdot favor Nvidia over ATI.
I've had acute sinus infections yearly since high school, I'm ever reluctant to go to the doctor's to get medicine if I absolutely don't need to. But really in my case I've seen the same thing so many damn times I don't need a diagnosis... I need someone to tell me 'you've used X antibiotic before, maybe we should give you Y this time.' or something like that... Wasting both our time just to say 'yep you have a sinus infection' is frankly silly...
I don't know where you live, but in western PA and Eastern Ohio I can categorically say mass transit is shit. It's also less than useless for anything time sensitive. It's all bus transit to outside a few small areas serviced by some other form of public transit. Ever get to a bus stop 10 minutes early for when it's supposed to be by to find it it's already been by and now you need to wait an hour for the next one...? Yeah well welcome to frickin' US public fucking transport.
Well I'm not the guy your asking, but my variance is greater than two hours daily... Then again I don't live closer than 5 miles from any coworker either... So I carpool with the only other worker near me (@ 5 miles away), force them to get up early because I'm due in an hour before them... & then we play games of which of us ends up having to wait on the other at the end of the day...? Yeah... I so don't see that...
that works until you price the commuters who can't afford to live in the city itself right out of their place to work by making it just as expensive outside the city through the taxes... Say goodbye to the economy...
I think you missed the part in the real world where companies care one gram about their employees getting hit with extra charges. They will be happy to force the average worker to get stuck paying anything and keep their hours the same.
I do better than Masters degree holders at thinking 'outside the box' in my experience, but I 'only' have 3 & 1/2 years of college. Then again I'm amazingly well rounded and college didn't have anything to do with that what so ever....
I have a 15 gallon gas tank @ $10 gallon I'd pay $150 to fill my tank up. I also wouldn't have a job as I can't afford to move closer and I can't afford that.
I've been around a long time & have heard of GoD (Gathering of Developers), but they've been gone for years... 5 or so if I remember correctly... I still hadn't heard of 'GameCock' though... A fact I'm quite happy to admit to... Who think sup these names...?
Actually as someone who has worked in a school (recently) in the US, without being a school teacher, I can say the federal government doesn't do much on actually mandating education. There are no national tests of achievement and in fact each state is left to come up with it's own standards and how they enforce these. & the local school board can further mandate additional requirements for learning.
In fact except for a very broad set of rules, structure for providing federal funding for certain projects, and the lack of nation wide testing... The system here is exactly like the one you describe in Canada.
I know this is slashdot, but maybe you should actually find out how the system works before commenting on how broken our system is...?
I do something similar to the person who did the original ask slashdot post, except it's a Middle School enrichment class... And from that experience I can tell you one thing:
The kids couldn't care less about learning html.
What do they want...? Tools that let them make a page on the fly through a WYSIWYG interface. Screw code. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to convince the kids just to play with an image or a image editing program... There is no sense of exploration and no desire to explore them. Show them one cool feature (difference filters for instance) and ask them to find some others and they just play with the cool feature til they get bored...
Why is this the case...? Because they programs don't look anything like the games they are used to and they simply hate the interface most software uses... I've tried to find something that has an interface they would like and so far I haven't found one yet... Whether it's a html editor, image editing program, or a related tool...
As a VZW customer who uses a corporate discount, they only time I can't get my discount is on the phones in the local stores or online through the generic website... However I can get my discount on accessories in store, Use the corporate discount website to purchase plans/phones/accessories, or get plans with discounts in the stores. As many times as I changed my plan in the store I know this awfully well...
Also I'd love it if AT&T had better coverage where I live, but where I live their coverage is interstate and the area directly next to it. That's it. I live 15 miles from any interstate (there are 4 close ones), which is outside of the narrow band of support they offer. They don't even have a store locally where I can sign up, but phones, etc... If they don't service the area where you live what's the point...?
My options when looking for a carrier where VZW and two regional providers. I couldn't travel with the regional ones (my work a few times a year requires travel), so those were out... That left VZW and so far I've had few complaints... Then again I don't jump phones very often and I don't use many 'advanced' features of my current phone...
"Destruction or other reasonable disposition of the work" is not a license to kill; destroying the body of a living human being on which an infringing work is made is not even remotely a "reasonable disposition" of the unauthorized copy."
"suggests that President Bush and I have a lot in common because we are both white males, it's silly"
Except this is what people think... As a white male myself I see this all the time, anyone who isn't white thinks you get everything handed to you for being white and male and attempts to explain that's not true at all get ignored as baseless lies to maintain 'our' status quo. Funny thing being white males are several times more likely to end up as the next homeless man on the street because we often get ignored by safety nets that catch other ethnicities...
"Everyone is a parent or a biological dead-end"
Or isn't a parent... yet... And that all depends on your definition of 'parent', as someone who works for a school... I have to say I've seen 'parents' that don't deserve to have kids. They don't care about them and basically ignore them. Worse are the ones who have kids, so they can get out of working... I've seen more than a few of those before to. While they are usually women who suffered bad parenting and so only find 'sperm donners' rather than husbands, I've seen a few men play the system in the opposite way to drive 2007 caddy's and wear expensive suits while they have 12 or 15 kids with different women... All paid for by our taxes... Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside at night I tell ya...
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HR where I work is considered critical management function, yet we went without anyone doing HR for 3 months do to the staff en mass fleeing the company... On the other hand my job as the network admin is seen as trivial support staff, yet I take a day off because I'm sick and I get a dozen calls (while in the doctor's office for part of it) requiring something to be done 'now'.
This is the disconnect with management that IT faces regularly.
There are two points I'd make:
1) Sometimes IT is handed a raw deal by those that came before... The network I'm handed is a mess... I'd love to fix the issues the real way (ie spending money to repair or replace everything), but Management won't got for that... So instead I do more duck tape and super glue fixes... After a year I'm down to random failures only a couple times a day...
2) Sometimes it's not IT that causes drama, but management tying IT's hands. For instance I had a series of printers die... The manufacturer basically told me to sod off and not bother them again about their shitty printers. So I had to put in a request for new printers, which needs to bounce through a dozen layers of management cruft before they can be ordered. In the meantime I have people that are screaming at me because they don't have printers... Before this year even started I suggested having spar printers on hand for emergencies like this, but management vetoed anything more than we absolutely had to have. So Drama happens and it's not my fault, but I'm left holding the bag...
Wow, sure if the two sides both wanted peace that might work. From what I've seen (& that includes from people who live there), every attempt from the 'Israeli' side has been meet by an increase in violence by the other. Your view would condemn them to stand there and take assault after assault until in the end they can't take it anymore and snap back. In fact that pretty well describes some previous attempts at settling things. It hardly helps that most Muslim states nearby refused to call Israel a country and seek to spur on the Palestinians after their own violence was repelled. Maybe you should dig a little deeper and see that it's all a huge ball of grey, with no black and white and far to much suffering on both sides to simply back down and accept death?
Just be glad that you don't work where I do... I'm the director of IT/Network Admin/All in one tech staff and I make less then the Head of maintenance who has a 6 person staff...
To bad no one at work or government will be able to read any of those files they create... Oh well, that's not your problem now is it?
Lol, as the spread of malicious software indicates windows users have no problems managing to install any and all harmful software out there even if they would have no clue how to install office or a alternative web browser... But give them the "Shopping network toolbar" & by god they will never have a problem getting that installed...
In my state (PA) even parents can no longer paddle their kids, let alone teachers or principals. In my day and age they could and getting a paddlin' meant somethin' and you never wanted to do whatever you had done again.
Now it's evil and wrong and will get the police and child services after you like maggots in roadkill. I had a friend who spent nearly a year fighting to get her kids back after child services took her kids away when she swatted the ass of her 8 year old on her front lawn for misbehaving and a neighbor called child services on her for it. A year of hell and courts because she tried to discipline her own child. And we wonder why so many young adults end up in jail when they never learned to behave in the first place.
Well I'm late on replying to, but as I work for a school I'll make a comment on the audio tape thing:
Depending on state and local rules on the recording of voices this may be impossible to do. In my state (PA), it would require permission to record in writing from every parent of every kid in the class to record that conversation as well as permission from the Principal, CAO (Chief Academic Officer), and/or superintendent for the school district. I can tell you know it would take months to get that permission.
My school has video cameras it can't legally run, because no one looked into the issues well enough before they installed them a few years back. It is a quite literal pain in the ass to try to get recordings of video or audio of anything happening in our school. Kids with foster homes and or kids actually from orphanages are the worst. Those are impossible to record legally in my state, any time they do get recorded or photographed by accident we are required to immediately delete those recordings and/or destroy the disk/tapes/media.
I'll add that in fact most social programs do make it harder for people to start working. My Ex is a good example. The government was giving her more money per month then she could (and at one point did) making 1.5 times minimum wage. It was a no brainer that she'd stop working when they told her she would loose her assistance for 'making to much'. When your total assistance is higher than the highest level you can earn on assistance, then their is a huge gap that must be overcome to get out of public assistance... A gap only experience can overcome, and those jobs giving experience place you outside assistance... It's a catch 22 for most who do want to better themselves... She's going back to school for a nursing because currently pay for nurses is sufficient even starting out to break that barrier...
"Under Clock Your CPU"
Or own an AMD cpu powered computer and turn on Cool & Quiet. It under-clocks your cpu when you don't need it and powers it back up when you do. It's usually enabled in all their laptops (& has been for around 5 years) and can be turned on for most desktops in your motherboards bios.
My 'new' PC saves me $50/month on my electric bill over the old while being faster when I need it.
Nvidia wanted nothing to do with joining with AMD. Yet AMD wanted to buy into graphics technology. Who else was there to buy?
Personally I'm quite happy with the move, even if you'll see most of Slashdot favor Nvidia over ATI.
I've had acute sinus infections yearly since high school, I'm ever reluctant to go to the doctor's to get medicine if I absolutely don't need to. But really in my case I've seen the same thing so many damn times I don't need a diagnosis... I need someone to tell me 'you've used X antibiotic before, maybe we should give you Y this time.' or something like that... Wasting both our time just to say 'yep you have a sinus infection' is frankly silly...
I don't know where you live, but in western PA and Eastern Ohio I can categorically say mass transit is shit. It's also less than useless for anything time sensitive. It's all bus transit to outside a few small areas serviced by some other form of public transit. Ever get to a bus stop 10 minutes early for when it's supposed to be by to find it it's already been by and now you need to wait an hour for the next one...? Yeah well welcome to frickin' US public fucking transport.
Well I'm not the guy your asking, but my variance is greater than two hours daily... Then again I don't live closer than 5 miles from any coworker either... So I carpool with the only other worker near me (@ 5 miles away), force them to get up early because I'm due in an hour before them... & then we play games of which of us ends up having to wait on the other at the end of the day...? Yeah... I so don't see that...
that works until you price the commuters who can't afford to live in the city itself right out of their place to work by making it just as expensive outside the city through the taxes... Say goodbye to the economy...
I think you missed the part in the real world where companies care one gram about their employees getting hit with extra charges. They will be happy to force the average worker to get stuck paying anything and keep their hours the same.
Thinking otherwise is futile.
I do better than Masters degree holders at thinking 'outside the box' in my experience, but I 'only' have 3 & 1/2 years of college. Then again I'm amazingly well rounded and college didn't have anything to do with that what so ever....
I have a 15 gallon gas tank @ $10 gallon I'd pay $150 to fill my tank up. I also wouldn't have a job as I can't afford to move closer and I can't afford that.
We already have such taxes. They have averaged 50% of the total cost of gas for decades. Mass transits still shit here.
I've been around a long time & have heard of GoD (Gathering of Developers), but they've been gone for years... 5 or so if I remember correctly... I still hadn't heard of 'GameCock' though... A fact I'm quite happy to admit to... Who think sup these names...?
Actually as someone who has worked in a school (recently) in the US, without being a school teacher, I can say the federal government doesn't do much on actually mandating education. There are no national tests of achievement and in fact each state is left to come up with it's own standards and how they enforce these. & the local school board can further mandate additional requirements for learning.
In fact except for a very broad set of rules, structure for providing federal funding for certain projects, and the lack of nation wide testing... The system here is exactly like the one you describe in Canada.
I know this is slashdot, but maybe you should actually find out how the system works before commenting on how broken our system is...?
I do something similar to the person who did the original ask slashdot post, except it's a Middle School enrichment class... And from that experience I can tell you one thing:
The kids couldn't care less about learning html.
What do they want...? Tools that let them make a page on the fly through a WYSIWYG interface. Screw code. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to convince the kids just to play with an image or a image editing program... There is no sense of exploration and no desire to explore them. Show them one cool feature (difference filters for instance) and ask them to find some others and they just play with the cool feature til they get bored...
Why is this the case...? Because they programs don't look anything like the games they are used to and they simply hate the interface most software uses... I've tried to find something that has an interface they would like and so far I haven't found one yet... Whether it's a html editor, image editing program, or a related tool...
Well a few points I'll reply to...
As a VZW customer who uses a corporate discount, they only time I can't get my discount is on the phones in the local stores or online through the generic website... However I can get my discount on accessories in store, Use the corporate discount website to purchase plans/phones/accessories, or get plans with discounts in the stores. As many times as I changed my plan in the store I know this awfully well...
Also I'd love it if AT&T had better coverage where I live, but where I live their coverage is interstate and the area directly next to it. That's it. I live 15 miles from any interstate (there are 4 close ones), which is outside of the narrow band of support they offer. They don't even have a store locally where I can sign up, but phones, etc... If they don't service the area where you live what's the point...?
My options when looking for a carrier where VZW and two regional providers. I couldn't travel with the regional ones (my work a few times a year requires travel), so those were out... That left VZW and so far I've had few complaints... Then again I don't jump phones very often and I don't use many 'advanced' features of my current phone...
"Destruction or other reasonable disposition of the work" is not a license to kill; destroying the body of a living human being on which an infringing work is made is not even remotely a "reasonable disposition" of the unauthorized copy."
You forgot the word 'yet'...
I just have two replies to your comments:
"suggests that President Bush and I have a lot in common because we are both white males, it's silly"
Except this is what people think... As a white male myself I see this all the time, anyone who isn't white thinks you get everything handed to you for being white and male and attempts to explain that's not true at all get ignored as baseless lies to maintain 'our' status quo. Funny thing being white males are several times more likely to end up as the next homeless man on the street because we often get ignored by safety nets that catch other ethnicities...
"Everyone is a parent or a biological dead-end"
Or isn't a parent... yet... And that all depends on your definition of 'parent', as someone who works for a school... I have to say I've seen 'parents' that don't deserve to have kids. They don't care about them and basically ignore them. Worse are the ones who have kids, so they can get out of working... I've seen more than a few of those before to. While they are usually women who suffered bad parenting and so only find 'sperm donners' rather than husbands, I've seen a few men play the system in the opposite way to drive 2007 caddy's and wear expensive suits while they have 12 or 15 kids with different women... All paid for by our taxes... Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside at night I tell ya...