imagine reading an article that has sources - and seeing "click here to download" the source for $.99 or whatever. Universities could have subscriptions for student, built in wi-fi, the ability to share portions (a page or so) a-la zune.... generation 2 of these machines could be very cool indeed.
Of course, we'd start getting spam to buy penthouse letters for cheap, but hey.
Gee, thanks for pointing out that link. Estimates of amounts in excess of $10,0000 shall be rounded to the nearest $20,000.
Good to know that funny math is still going on in the Senate. Is that 10k or 100k that we're supposed to round to the nearest 20k? I guess with this kind of editing they can easily get away with monstrous raises. I imagine it has other uses too, like: "I propose we give ourselves a 10,001$ cost of living raise, which must be rounded to the nearest 20k."
I also like your list of co-sponsors, but I couldn't tell who was of which party since I don't pay much attention to politics these days. So I looked it up.
Sen Bennett, Robert F - Rep Sen McConnell, Mitch - Rep Sen Collins, Susan M - Rep Sen Lott, Trent - Rep and Racist
Sen Brown, Sherrod - Dem Sen Cantwell, Maria - Dem Sen Durbin, Richard - Dem Sen Feinstein, Dianne - Dem Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. - Dem Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - Dem Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. - Dem -*cough*bullshit*cough* Also an enemy of video game players everywhere. Sen Menendez, Robert - Dem Sen Mikulski, Barbara A - Dem Sen Salazar, Ken - Dem Sen Stabenow, Debbie - Dem Sen Schumer, Charles E - Dem - Enemy of video game players everywhere.
Personally, I'd go with Shadow of the Colossus and God of War for the PS2. I don't know if either of these came out this year exactly, but they are certainly excellent games. They lose replay value quickly though.
I never was a big fan of documentation - until I worked in an environment where 5 tickets a month were randomly pulled and audited. If enough of your tickets didn't meet department standards, then your supervisor was notified; enough write ups and you were fired. This was only at a tier 1 level though, as tier two had already proven themselves. The main reason Tier 1 needs to be so explicit (step 1, remoted to pc. step 2, renamed user's profile. 3. had user log back in and verified profile was recreated etc) is so that when the shit hits the fan, and you need to escalate a VPs ticket to Tier 2, Tier 2 can go in and say "OK, don't need to do all the stupid stuff."
Granted, this is something you might see at a larger helpdesk, and not many other places.
Simply tell management that your current tools are not up to the job that they require. State to management in no uncertain terms that while you could write a program to document the calls, or come up with a way to do it that enhanced the performance of your team, you can't set aside additional time to do that and still stay on top of your work. State that it would take you x number of hours to develop the tool to track tickets at y$ per hour, where x*y>z (z being the cost of the ticketing system you want for your helpdesk). This is called stalling.
In the meantime, while management hems and haws about spending that much money, ask your helpdesk what they'd like to see in this ticketing software. Tell your analysts that they have a choice - help decide how ticketing is most beneficial to the department, or have no say so in the whole process and have to use a tool they don't like to justify their jobs to management. They have a third option: leave before or after training their replacement to use the software they don't want to use.
Look into the following while making the decision: 1. You want to be able to identify problem users. Train them, or point out in dollars and cents how much those users cost the company by the amount of calls they make to the helpdesk. 2. You want to be able to identify common problems, so that you can proactively fix them and reduce the call volume. 3. You want to be able to identify specific hardware that is failing in the environment. This means asset tracking. This might mean changing vendors. 4. You want to be able to identify which problems are taking the most time for your analysts. Proactively fix those.
Teach them a language that focuses on how to structure programs without bogging them down with memory management, pointers, etc, etc. A firm understanding of OO would also be much more useful and much easier to grasp.
Granted, they are only RC1 (us tech support folks have to learn the ins and outs before we push it on the end users), but we've got several in the environment. We're looking at a major deployment in mid 2007. I mean, we've only got 65k end users, so we're not the largest kids on the block, but we're a chunk - and we're moving to vista, like it or not. We've also started to introduce some linux servers into the environment. Whee! I think we have 4 out of 2000 or so. But it's a start.
I've talked to a couple of my friends, and they are not very impressed by what they see in Vista in terms of new tools for the developers. Major changes, yes, but few of them practically interesting,
Try looking at it from a tech support perspective. with just about everything being in xml format, scripting changes and troubleshooting issues just became a lot easier for us tech support folks, especially if we have just a teensy weensy bit of knowledge about a scripting language like ruby.
seriously, it's nice that there's an article and all that uses the word iFanboy, but can we get a real/. article? Who's asking the important questions like "Yeah, but does it run linux?"
Take me for isntance... I go through the regular checkout lane so that the store doesn't see a discontinued need for workers. Yeah, I know how self checkout works, yeah, I think it's reliable, no, I don't think the extra 2-5 minute wait is worth higher unemployment numbers.
The light of keenness shines from the faces of the workers, too, as they chisel out mountain sides and work out where to put the Tree of Life. They greet us cheerily as we pass.
They, too, know they are doing the Lord's Work, and each has signed a contract saying they believe in the Seven Days of Creation theory. Mornings on this construction site start with prayer meetings.
So would someone who hadn't signed the contract been allowed to work on the job site? Or do people have to be good little Christians these days in order to feed their families?
The computer/Internet industry as a whole dropped $84 million on lobbying in 2005 -- more even than the TV/movies/music groups.
So, what you're telling me is that politicians collect money from the most wildly successful companies out there? Allow me to propose an alternate subject line: Water is wet, Microsoft is evil, politicians collect bribes via lobbyists.
Other problems had nothing to do with machines. A location in Columbus, Ohio, opened a few minutes late because of a break-in at the school where the precinct is located.
Watch for A) high voter turn out here or B) strong discrepancies in the way people say they voted and the actual count. My guess is the machine was hax0red.
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imagine reading an article that has sources - and seeing "click here to download" the source for $.99 or whatever. Universities could have subscriptions for student, built in wi-fi, the ability to share portions (a page or so) a-la zune.... generation 2 of these machines could be very cool indeed.
Of course, we'd start getting spam to buy penthouse letters for cheap, but hey.
Gee, thanks for pointing out that link. Estimates of amounts in excess of $10,0000 shall be rounded to the nearest $20,000.
Good to know that funny math is still going on in the Senate. Is that 10k or 100k that we're supposed to round to the nearest 20k? I guess with this kind of editing they can easily get away with monstrous raises. I imagine it has other uses too, like: "I propose we give ourselves a 10,001$ cost of living raise, which must be rounded to the nearest 20k."
I also like your list of co-sponsors, but I couldn't tell who was of which party since I don't pay much attention to politics these days. So I looked it up.
Sen Bennett, Robert F - Rep
Sen McConnell, Mitch - Rep
Sen Collins, Susan M - Rep
Sen Lott, Trent - Rep and Racist
Sen Brown, Sherrod - Dem
Sen Cantwell, Maria - Dem
Sen Durbin, Richard - Dem
Sen Feinstein, Dianne - Dem
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. - Dem
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - Dem
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. - Dem -*cough*bullshit*cough* Also an enemy of video game players everywhere.
Sen Menendez, Robert - Dem
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A - Dem
Sen Salazar, Ken - Dem
Sen Stabenow, Debbie - Dem
Sen Schumer, Charles E - Dem - Enemy of video game players everywhere.
I mean, we're inching towards it all the time!
He really sucked at tetris. :)
Fuck that, I want to know the state of the judges finances before and after the decision.
Personally, I'd go with Shadow of the Colossus and God of War for the PS2. I don't know if either of these came out this year exactly, but they are certainly excellent games. They lose replay value quickly though.
:)
Another thing I feel obligated to mention is the Order of the Stick Adventure Game. Board games are cool too
Everyone knows the internet is for porn.
Productivity of helpdesks across the nation plummets while everyone scrambles to put their $0.02 into this thread.
I never was a big fan of documentation - until I worked in an environment where 5 tickets a month were randomly pulled and audited. If enough of your tickets didn't meet department standards, then your supervisor was notified; enough write ups and you were fired. This was only at a tier 1 level though, as tier two had already proven themselves. The main reason Tier 1 needs to be so explicit (step 1, remoted to pc. step 2, renamed user's profile. 3. had user log back in and verified profile was recreated etc) is so that when the shit hits the fan, and you need to escalate a VPs ticket to Tier 2, Tier 2 can go in and say "OK, don't need to do all the stupid stuff."
Granted, this is something you might see at a larger helpdesk, and not many other places.
Simply tell management that your current tools are not up to the job that they require. State to management in no uncertain terms that while you could write a program to document the calls, or come up with a way to do it that enhanced the performance of your team, you can't set aside additional time to do that and still stay on top of your work. State that it would take you x number of hours to develop the tool to track tickets at y$ per hour, where x*y>z (z being the cost of the ticketing system you want for your helpdesk). This is called stalling.
In the meantime, while management hems and haws about spending that much money, ask your helpdesk what they'd like to see in this ticketing software. Tell your analysts that they have a choice - help decide how ticketing is most beneficial to the department, or have no say so in the whole process and have to use a tool they don't like to justify their jobs to management. They have a third option: leave before or after training their replacement to use the software they don't want to use.
Look into the following while making the decision:
1. You want to be able to identify problem users. Train them, or point out in dollars and cents how much those users cost the company by the amount of calls they make to the helpdesk.
2. You want to be able to identify common problems, so that you can proactively fix them and reduce the call volume.
3. You want to be able to identify specific hardware that is failing in the environment. This means asset tracking. This might mean changing vendors.
4. You want to be able to identify which problems are taking the most time for your analysts. Proactively fix those.
Hope this helps.
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Any opinions expressed on this page are not in fact mine but were forced on me at gunpoint by the University of Auckland.
He a shill!
Here's a nasa link admitting the disclosure of the joint venture.
Teach them a language that focuses on how to structure programs without bogging them down with memory management, pointers, etc, etc. A firm understanding of OO would also be much more useful and much easier to grasp.
The language you are looking for sir, is Ruby.
has begun serving a prison sentence for making the films 'Miss Congeniality,'
Good.
If anyone deserves it it was him.
Granted, they are only RC1 (us tech support folks have to learn the ins and outs before we push it on the end users), but we've got several in the environment. We're looking at a major deployment in mid 2007. I mean, we've only got 65k end users, so we're not the largest kids on the block, but we're a chunk - and we're moving to vista, like it or not. We've also started to introduce some linux servers into the environment. Whee! I think we have 4 out of 2000 or so. But it's a start.
I've talked to a couple of my friends, and they are not very impressed by what they see in Vista in terms of new tools for the developers. Major changes, yes, but few of them practically interesting,
Try looking at it from a tech support perspective. with just about everything being in xml format, scripting changes and troubleshooting issues just became a lot easier for us tech support folks, especially if we have just a teensy weensy bit of knowledge about a scripting language like ruby.
seriously, it's nice that there's an article and all that uses the word iFanboy, but can we get a real /. article? Who's asking the important questions like "Yeah, but does it run linux?"
All real objects are 3D
Um, like shadows? Or are shadows not real?
Take me for isntance... I go through the regular checkout lane so that the store doesn't see a discontinued need for workers. Yeah, I know how self checkout works, yeah, I think it's reliable, no, I don't think the extra 2-5 minute wait is worth higher unemployment numbers.
The light of keenness shines from the faces of the workers, too, as they chisel out mountain sides and work out where to put the Tree of Life. They greet us cheerily as we pass.
They, too, know they are doing the Lord's Work, and each has signed a contract saying they believe in the Seven Days of Creation theory. Mornings on this construction site start with prayer meetings.
So would someone who hadn't signed the contract been allowed to work on the job site? Or do people have to be good little Christians these days in order to feed their families?
impairing the operation of any program or data held on a computer."
Sounds like Norton A/V to me.
The computer/Internet industry as a whole dropped $84 million on lobbying in 2005 -- more even than the TV/movies/music groups.
So, what you're telling me is that politicians collect money from the most wildly successful companies out there? Allow me to propose an alternate subject line: Water is wet, Microsoft is evil, politicians collect bribes via lobbyists.
Come on slashdot, where's the news in this?
Other problems had nothing to do with machines. A location in Columbus, Ohio, opened a few minutes late because of a break-in at the school where the precinct is located.
Watch for A) high voter turn out here or B) strong discrepancies in the way people say they voted and the actual count. My guess is the machine was hax0red.