Smart Tech may be sexy, but why not have a simple physical safety to defeat e.g. children, like the child lock medicine caps?
Push and twist would be a lot cheaper to implement.
Doesn't solve the problem of an adult grabbing your gun and shooting you with it, but not having a gun in the first
place solves that issue.
"Dear god no. Lots of different companies all trying different things is exactly what you want amidst technological uncertainty."
If only. reality is that we are cash cows for these robber baron corporations. If there was some competition, I might agree it would be worth it - but there is not. Most geolocations you have one choice and once choice only
Just read the Intercept or any other responsible journal.
This is Government alarmist B$ and the Sunday Times
quiesced with it.
Note that a 'Downing St. spokesperson' said they have no evidence
of anyone being harmed - contradicting their own agent provocateurs...
I don't think the US had anything to do with the Enigma project, despite Mathew McConaghty's movie.
If anyone deserves the credit it would be the Polish, French and Great Britain.
I'm now a Unix administrator after years of Cobol/PL1/C experience.
That's why I refuse to get dragged along when my fellow SAs want to write the latest scripts in Perl and Python. Why do I need to learn a new language that is poorly typed when I can write the same stuff in a Posix shell ?
I thought I saw a program that they did this in Colorado, or some other state.
The point was it was easier and cheaper to monitor passing traffic and
have the state pay to fix the cars that were the major poluters than have
everyone go through an emissions check every year - or something like that.
And I remember is was more like 10% of the cars caused 90% of the polution.
I was a member of a golf course in Scotland that my father and a few others started for coal miners.
(he started out in the coal mines in 115 at 14 years of age).
Nowadays, they probably would not let any coal miners in,if there were any left.
Reminds me of a joke about Captain Mark Phillips, Princess Anne's husband. Reportedly, his Army colleagues called him
'Fog' because he was 'dim and a bit wet'...
1) O.K. it's bad, so they should have gone with a single payer system like every other 'advanced' country, instead of pandering to the GOP and the Insurance Cartel.
2) I hardly think there will be a net loss of jobs in the Insurance industry when we are adding ~20 million people to the roles
3) It's been proven again and again that Medicare is less costly and more efficient than commercial companies..
4) There may well be a mass migration of the poor and underinsured from the South to states that opted to expand Medicaid to the East/West/Northern states..:)
It's 'Cavalry', not 'Calvary', although Healthcare.gov
may end up crucified by these 'Tech Giant's'...
Personally, I would have used Amazon and H-P or IBM , definitely NOT ORACLE.... $$$$$$
Telecommuting is nice for the workers, and I too like it, but is absolute shit for creating quality work in a timely manner. Slag at this all you want, but that is my perspective from two projects implementing the same system using two different management policies: telecommuting versus 'no telecommuting'. And 'no telecommuting' produced better work.
You're using personal experience to make your argument. Well, good for you. Glad it worked out in your case. However, not everyone agrees. I was lampooning this CEO's blanket policy decision. Blanket policies are universally bad -- there has never been one that didn't leave a trail of carnage in its wake. "Ruling a kingdom is like cooking a fish. Don't overdo it." -- Lao Tzu. Effective leadership is more about a direction than a destination. It is less about policy and more about guideline. And great leadership is so transparent you don't even notice it. Everything just seems to click. Well... things at HP aren't clicking. And this CEO is coming in and trying to prove herself with a nice big shakeup. This is what almost every CEO does. It's like when people buy a house... they invariably paint it a different color as soon as they can! The other color might have been their favorite color. It might have been the best color for the house. But it has to be changed, because until it is, for psychological reasons that person won't consider the house "theirs" until it does.
This is about painting a house. It's about marking territory. Because if it wasn't, then the CEO would be making that decision on a per-business unit basis. Some lines of work function better with it. Some don't. Investigating and then making a decision shows thoughtfulness and consideration of the complexities of the business. Shoving a policy down everyone's throats screams "I gotta paint my new house!"
The actual policy is not a one size fits all 'diktat'.
They are just trying to get more who CAN go to the office to turn up.
OTOH, having those new wide open space 'rent a shelf' offices with
everyone talking and no walls might be why people stay at home...
I collect books by the inventors of languades
e.g. C++ by Stroustrop, C by Kernigan and Richie
Pascal by (I forget the Swiss dude)...
I feel these are worth while keeping just as references
I remember it vividly, I was leaving SE Michigan to drive to my home the upper part of lower Michigan. By sheer luck, my home was outside the area affected. Help my decision to work from home permanently.
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Smart Tech may be sexy, but why not have a simple physical safety to defeat e.g. children, like the child lock medicine caps? Push and twist would be a lot cheaper to implement. Doesn't solve the problem of an adult grabbing your gun and shooting you with it, but not having a gun in the first place solves that issue.
your signature implies you have read Tam Johnston's The Social History of the Working Classes of Scotland. Wish I could find a copy... :(
Probably the only way they could keep the contract...
"Dear god no. Lots of different companies all trying different things is exactly what you want amidst technological uncertainty." If only. reality is that we are cash cows for these robber baron corporations. If there was some competition, I might agree it would be worth it - but there is not. Most geolocations you have one choice and once choice only
John Bull...
Just read the Intercept or any other responsible journal. This is Government alarmist B$ and the Sunday Times quiesced with it. Note that a 'Downing St. spokesperson' said they have no evidence of anyone being harmed - contradicting their own agent provocateurs...
I don't think the US had anything to do with the Enigma project, despite Mathew McConaghty's movie. If anyone deserves the credit it would be the Polish, French and Great Britain.
I'm now a Unix administrator after years of Cobol/PL1/C experience. That's why I refuse to get dragged along when my fellow SAs want to write the latest scripts in Perl and Python. Why do I need to learn a new language that is poorly typed when I can write the same stuff in a Posix shell ?
Very simple. Leave the 'Company issues iPhone' at home when you are not 'on the clock' and switch it off. QED.
I thought I saw a program that they did this in Colorado, or some other state. The point was it was easier and cheaper to monitor passing traffic and have the state pay to fix the cars that were the major poluters than have everyone go through an emissions check every year - or something like that. And I remember is was more like 10% of the cars caused 90% of the polution.
So what do the 5% that are not in error predict?
More proof that the GOP doesn't care about 99% of the US public, just the 1% that pay them.
I was a member of a golf course in Scotland that my father and a few others started for coal miners. (he started out in the coal mines in 115 at 14 years of age). Nowadays, they probably would not let any coal miners in,if there were any left.
This 61 year old would love to have 20 something muscles after shovelling snow for the last week here in the frozen MidWest! :)
Wot? No Klingon?
What's the difference from being ruled by the likes of Jamie Dimon?
Reminds me of a joke about Captain Mark Phillips, Princess Anne's husband. Reportedly, his Army colleagues called him 'Fog' because he was 'dim and a bit wet'...
1) O.K. it's bad, so they should have gone with a single payer system like every other 'advanced' country, instead of pandering to the GOP and the Insurance Cartel. 2) I hardly think there will be a net loss of jobs in the Insurance industry when we are adding ~20 million people to the roles 3) It's been proven again and again that Medicare is less costly and more efficient than commercial companies.. 4) There may well be a mass migration of the poor and underinsured from the South to states that opted to expand Medicaid to the East/West/Northern states.. :)
It's 'Cavalry', not 'Calvary', although Healthcare.gov may end up crucified by these 'Tech Giant's'... Personally, I would have used Amazon and H-P or IBM , definitely NOT ORACLE.... $$$$$$
Telecommuting is nice for the workers, and I too like it, but is absolute shit for creating quality work in a timely manner. Slag at this all you want, but that is my perspective from two projects implementing the same system using two different management policies: telecommuting versus 'no telecommuting'. And 'no telecommuting' produced better work.
You're using personal experience to make your argument. Well, good for you. Glad it worked out in your case. However, not everyone agrees. I was lampooning this CEO's blanket policy decision. Blanket policies are universally bad -- there has never been one that didn't leave a trail of carnage in its wake. "Ruling a kingdom is like cooking a fish. Don't overdo it." -- Lao Tzu. Effective leadership is more about a direction than a destination. It is less about policy and more about guideline. And great leadership is so transparent you don't even notice it. Everything just seems to click. Well... things at HP aren't clicking. And this CEO is coming in and trying to prove herself with a nice big shakeup. This is what almost every CEO does. It's like when people buy a house... they invariably paint it a different color as soon as they can! The other color might have been their favorite color. It might have been the best color for the house. But it has to be changed, because until it is, for psychological reasons that person won't consider the house "theirs" until it does.
This is about painting a house. It's about marking territory. Because if it wasn't, then the CEO would be making that decision on a per-business unit basis. Some lines of work function better with it. Some don't. Investigating and then making a decision shows thoughtfulness and consideration of the complexities of the business. Shoving a policy down everyone's throats screams "I gotta paint my new house!"
The actual policy is not a one size fits all 'diktat'. They are just trying to get more who CAN go to the office to turn up. OTOH, having those new wide open space 'rent a shelf' offices with everyone talking and no walls might be why people stay at home...
I collect books by the inventors of languades e.g. C++ by Stroustrop, C by Kernigan and Richie Pascal by (I forget the Swiss dude)... I feel these are worth while keeping just as references
I remember it vividly, I was leaving SE Michigan to drive to my home the upper part of lower Michigan. By sheer luck, my home was outside the area affected. Help my decision to work from home permanently.
nope. Human nature is such that this is SOP....and why we can;t trust anyone with our personal details...
I agree. It would actually be an Act of War, as Julian Assange is presently located in the Equadorean Embassy? right?
Here's a good one. We had to write a sudo rule to allow a SUN/Oracle identity management tool to read the /etc/group file.
what's up with that?