That's not the point. I didn't need Google Home before, and I don't need it now, except to do things that I used to be able to do with Chrome. It's obvious that Google is again doing their "gentle nudge" approach to get a higher number of users on whatever product they're trying to push. If Microsoft was doing the same thing you'd be the first to get your panties in a bunch.
What got Trump elected is mostly Obamacare and Clinton.
But there's a special mention to the sexting perv (Weiner) who had the great idea to send dick pics to a minor, which made the FBI look closely at his computer and find old classified emails from the time his ex-wife was working for Secretary Clinton. That's what caused the investigation into the emails to be reopened just before the elections. Dick pics and incompetent email users.
<quote><p>Slashdot has been bloody awful lately.</p><p>Pointless political articles and click-bait headlines with little or no tech aspect, just what the audience wants to see!</p></quote>
The political BS has been happening for a long while. This was such a great site for tech in the beginning. I don't hang around here much anymore.
I had to reply just to see how you managed to get that fucked up formatting
It's racist and sexist not to vote Democrat. That's why the Democrats tend to murder or try to impeach presidents when they lose their elections; they're trying to save the country.
You think I'm kidding, but I remember a song by spoken word artist Shane Koyczan. He said: "Strange in a George W. Bush hasn't been assassinated yet kind of way".
The choice was either that arrogant person, or a person who literally stole furniture from the White House and had goons persecute women to make them withdraw their rape accusations against her husband. I'd say America showed common sense, given the options.
For all the lessons that our own human history should have taught us, we have made remarkably little progress in addressing such diseased thinking.
The real diseased thinking is what you just posted. Bundle all the shit you can think of under "Trump" and associate the conservatives with that whole bag of vomit. The sad part is that you probably are convinced of at least some of this bullshit.
If you're not talking about Android or iOS, then I don't know what the fuck you _are_ talking about... Chrome ships with Chromecast streaming built in and has for a dreadfully long time.
Let's say I use Chrome to cast stuff from my Linux laptop. Works great. But then let's say I change the wifi password on my wifi router, or let's say I move and I get a new wifi network from a new ISP. In the past, all I had to do was to use Chrome to reconfigure the device; now i can't. I have to go find an Android or IOS device, and install Google Home.
It wasn't always like that. I'm a bit of a roadwarrior and I've frequently reconfigured ChromeCast from Chrome in the past. Now I can't, and I get absolutely no added value from using Google Home except to do what I used to do in Chrome.
Lousy but reproducible work is the result of doing the bare minimum to get certification.
True. And a good symptom of that is when the service delivery team becomes a "ticket machine"; it becomes like the customer service counter at a retailer where they will basically accept a dead squirrel as an alleged broken toaster if it comes with a valid receipt.
I didn't say it was easy, or that the majority of organizations get it right. But done right, it's gold.
Four steps that translate well to easily understood PowerPoint slides. It takes the guesswork and the "certified practitioner" scam out of the equation.
Ahh yes, the "we really suck, but we consistently suck, we've got the ISO 9000 cert to prove it" argument.
Yes. That's the whole point.
True story. I used to work for a company that did low-cost assembly for big vendors. Razor-thin margins, which means that the whole business depends on a highly efficient supply chain composed of other low-cost suppliers. When it came to a specific production line, a change of less than 1% in components rejection would either cause a financial loss on the whole batch, or create an expensive shipping buffer which also incurred unsustainable losses. So at one point the company ditched a "mostly high-quality" supplier for a consistently terrible one. Being able to tune the production line and let it run at a predictable rate was immensely more profitable than getting fewer average component rejections.
And I believe this approach also works in large organizations. You don't want to have two sets of baselines for a big project depending on "how long will it take to get working environments"; you want always the same kind of environments and use that as a reliable figure in your planning. Both ISO 9000 and ITIL include continuous improvement mechanisms, but they're not higher priority than having a predictable, consistent delivery.
Google has a bad history of not sticking it out with a product line if the first few iterations don't sell well.
Google either sticks with unpolished products (such as Google for work, now called G Suite for some reason, which has barely evolved over the last decade) or breaks things that used to work well so they can promote other stuff; case in point, the Chrome/Chromecast integration which now requires the Google Home android app to access many features (like changing wifii). They always do this shit like when they forced everyone on Google+.
The best priced smartphone I've had was a Moto G. Incredible battery life, no bloat, almost vanilla Android. Roughly $180 - $200.
Lately though I've bought a Samsung S8, unlocked, which is as expensive as it gets (same price range as the Pixel) but it's truly a fantastic device, it feels like nothing on it can be improved much. It does feel silly though to pay the same price for a phone than for a decent laptop, so unless you're an avid mobile gamer or mobile movie watcher, it's not really cost-effective and loses value faster than produce.
I agree. I'd pick "right practices" over "best practices" any time. Unfortunately, the bigger the organization, the more difficult it is to get decision makers to embrace common sense over whatever 2 minutes of googling tells them.
Your organization offers solutions, products or services that are unique. Why would you expect software and best processes to be the same.
Spot on. Being the best at implementing whatever is in Gartner's magic quadrant is not a difference maker.
Implementing this kind of enterprise product is often a minefield, especially since those products assume that: 1) your business process are in line with the industry and 2) you actually have well-defined business processes that apply to the whole organization
which is almost never the case. Even inside a large, somewhat stable organization, rolling out a big ERP a la SAP is a nightmare because Branch X has such or such requirement that are incompatible with Branch Y, and HQ is in a different timezone/currency/jurisdiction, etc.
I disagree. In both cases, the problem is not the framework (or standard), it's the blind trust in it and the misconception that it's going to make you deliver higher quality.
They won't. But done right, both ITIL and ISO 9000 give you one thing: predictable, repeatable output. Maybe your desktop guys are not very good at reinstalling Windows, and maybe your X-Ray QA is not good at spotting bad weld jobs on titanium alloy. But if you're an ISO 9000 or ITIL shop, the procedure will always be the same so you can know in advance that 24% of desktops will need re-imaging and that 61% of QA will give false positive, so you can adjust your planning accordingly. The actual quality is not better or worse, but it's consistent.
The alternative is to get sometimes good output, sometimes bad, depending on who gets the tasks, the time of day, was it before or after the first coffee break, etc. Maybe in such chaos you can find high quality once in a while, but it makes it very difficult to establish any kind of pipeline or planning.
The practice works by manipulating search ads to promote dubious apps in the App Store and then preys on unsuspecting users via the in-app purchase mechanism
It's one of those persistent management misconceptions: let's have small identical lego blocks that can be swapped around and that all have the same needs. Then they wonder why productivity is so low.
I had this discussion with a PM recently. They were complaining about a project that kept missing deadlines and that had low quality output. I said: you need a rockstar like such or such developer. The PM said; oh no we don't want to have different skill sets across the team, it's too difficult to reassign tasks.
The problem with PM is the same as with HR. People who have jobs with no complex expertise requirement tend to think all jobs are easy and that it's all a matter of man-hour or budget.
Only the CEO is accountable to the board. The CTO is accountable to the CEO. The VP-IT (or whatever) is accountable to the CTO. And down it goes until it gets to the idiot who couldn't follow instructions. Where do you draw the line? The executive who derives priorities based on the overall business strategy? The manager who is supposed to enforce policies? Risk management people who didn't foresee or implement safeguards? Team lead who didn't train or supervise the newb properly?
This is a witch hunt and it won't bring back the lost data. The blame game is never the best way to move forward. Processes and controls, that's how you tame the beast.
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That's actually a good example. If you have regular bowel movements, no matter the volume/texture/smell, it's easier to plan your day.
That's not the point. I didn't need Google Home before, and I don't need it now, except to do things that I used to be able to do with Chrome. It's obvious that Google is again doing their "gentle nudge" approach to get a higher number of users on whatever product they're trying to push. If Microsoft was doing the same thing you'd be the first to get your panties in a bunch.
Funny you didn't post words to that effect under the comment about "left-wing thugs."
Please provide an example of a left-wing or liberals demonstration that was disrupted by right-wing activists.
*crickets*
That's why I don't think we need to defend the left-wing thugs, they're having a field day every time someone else tries to express their opinions.
What got Trump elected is mostly Obamacare and Clinton.
But there's a special mention to the sexting perv (Weiner) who had the great idea to send dick pics to a minor, which made the FBI look closely at his computer and find old classified emails from the time his ex-wife was working for Secretary Clinton. That's what caused the investigation into the emails to be reopened just before the elections. Dick pics and incompetent email users.
<quote><p>Slashdot has been bloody awful lately.</p><p>Pointless political articles and click-bait headlines with little or no tech aspect, just what the audience wants to see!</p></quote>
The political BS has been happening for a long while. This was such a great site for tech in the beginning. I don't hang around here much anymore.
I had to reply just to see how you managed to get that fucked up formatting
It's racist and sexist not to vote Democrat. That's why the Democrats tend to murder or try to impeach presidents when they lose their elections; they're trying to save the country.
You think I'm kidding, but I remember a song by spoken word artist Shane Koyczan. He said: "Strange in a George W. Bush hasn't been assassinated yet kind of way".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hear the crowd laugh and applause. Those are the people who see themselves as the "tolerant" side.
I wonder what he has to say about Trump.
The choice was either that arrogant person, or a person who literally stole furniture from the White House and had goons persecute women to make them withdraw their rape accusations against her husband. I'd say America showed common sense, given the options.
more Americans want to see Trump impeached than support him.
In other words, "vote for my candidate or we'll impeach yours".
<- North Korea is this way, you may find that country more suitable to your interpretation of democracy
are we just screaming "fake news!" at the sight of anything that challenges our dissonant views?
Well that's what the liberals have done since the end of the primaries.
For all the lessons that our own human history should have taught us, we have made remarkably little progress in addressing such diseased thinking.
The real diseased thinking is what you just posted. Bundle all the shit you can think of under "Trump" and associate the conservatives with that whole bag of vomit. The sad part is that you probably are convinced of at least some of this bullshit.
You are the true face of hate.
If you're not talking about Android or iOS, then I don't know what the fuck you _are_ talking about... Chrome ships with Chromecast streaming built in and has for a dreadfully long time.
Let's say I use Chrome to cast stuff from my Linux laptop. Works great. But then let's say I change the wifi password on my wifi router, or let's say I move and I get a new wifi network from a new ISP. In the past, all I had to do was to use Chrome to reconfigure the device; now i can't. I have to go find an Android or IOS device, and install Google Home.
https://support.google.com/chr...
It wasn't always like that. I'm a bit of a roadwarrior and I've frequently reconfigured ChromeCast from Chrome in the past. Now I can't, and I get absolutely no added value from using Google Home except to do what I used to do in Chrome.
Lousy but reproducible work is the result of doing the bare minimum to get certification.
True. And a good symptom of that is when the service delivery team becomes a "ticket machine"; it becomes like the customer service counter at a retailer where they will basically accept a dead squirrel as an alleged broken toaster if it comes with a valid receipt.
I didn't say it was easy, or that the majority of organizations get it right. But done right, it's gold.
For ITIL, I really like the VisibleOps approach.
http://www.wikisummaries.org/w...
Four steps that translate well to easily understood PowerPoint slides. It takes the guesswork and the "certified practitioner" scam out of the equation.
Ahh yes, the "we really suck, but we consistently suck, we've got the ISO 9000 cert to prove it" argument.
Yes. That's the whole point.
True story. I used to work for a company that did low-cost assembly for big vendors. Razor-thin margins, which means that the whole business depends on a highly efficient supply chain composed of other low-cost suppliers. When it came to a specific production line, a change of less than 1% in components rejection would either cause a financial loss on the whole batch, or create an expensive shipping buffer which also incurred unsustainable losses. So at one point the company ditched a "mostly high-quality" supplier for a consistently terrible one. Being able to tune the production line and let it run at a predictable rate was immensely more profitable than getting fewer average component rejections.
And I believe this approach also works in large organizations. You don't want to have two sets of baselines for a big project depending on "how long will it take to get working environments"; you want always the same kind of environments and use that as a reliable figure in your planning. Both ISO 9000 and ITIL include continuous improvement mechanisms, but they're not higher priority than having a predictable, consistent delivery.
Google has a bad history of not sticking it out with a product line if the first few iterations don't sell well.
Google either sticks with unpolished products (such as Google for work, now called G Suite for some reason, which has barely evolved over the last decade) or breaks things that used to work well so they can promote other stuff; case in point, the Chrome/Chromecast integration which now requires the Google Home android app to access many features (like changing wifii). They always do this shit like when they forced everyone on Google+.
I don't trust them, plain and simple.
The best priced smartphone I've had was a Moto G. Incredible battery life, no bloat, almost vanilla Android. Roughly $180 - $200.
Lately though I've bought a Samsung S8, unlocked, which is as expensive as it gets (same price range as the Pixel) but it's truly a fantastic device, it feels like nothing on it can be improved much. It does feel silly though to pay the same price for a phone than for a decent laptop, so unless you're an avid mobile gamer or mobile movie watcher, it's not really cost-effective and loses value faster than produce.
I agree. I'd pick "right practices" over "best practices" any time. Unfortunately, the bigger the organization, the more difficult it is to get decision makers to embrace common sense over whatever 2 minutes of googling tells them.
Your organization offers solutions, products or services that are unique. Why would you expect software and best processes to be the same.
Spot on. Being the best at implementing whatever is in Gartner's magic quadrant is not a difference maker.
Implementing this kind of enterprise product is often a minefield, especially since those products assume that:
1) your business process are in line with the industry
and
2) you actually have well-defined business processes that apply to the whole organization
which is almost never the case. Even inside a large, somewhat stable organization, rolling out a big ERP a la SAP is a nightmare because Branch X has such or such requirement that are incompatible with Branch Y, and HQ is in a different timezone/currency/jurisdiction, etc.
ISO 9000
ITIL
I disagree. In both cases, the problem is not the framework (or standard), it's the blind trust in it and the misconception that it's going to make you deliver higher quality.
They won't. But done right, both ITIL and ISO 9000 give you one thing: predictable, repeatable output. Maybe your desktop guys are not very good at reinstalling Windows, and maybe your X-Ray QA is not good at spotting bad weld jobs on titanium alloy. But if you're an ISO 9000 or ITIL shop, the procedure will always be the same so you can know in advance that 24% of desktops will need re-imaging and that 61% of QA will give false positive, so you can adjust your planning accordingly. The actual quality is not better or worse, but it's consistent.
The alternative is to get sometimes good output, sometimes bad, depending on who gets the tasks, the time of day, was it before or after the first coffee break, etc. Maybe in such chaos you can find high quality once in a while, but it makes it very difficult to establish any kind of pipeline or planning.
You use Donald Trump's Twitter feed to find out "what is happening"?!
It's better to have more sources than relying on news organizations who have literally asked Clinton "how can we help".
If someone would take the fucking twitter phone away from him and advise him to just shut the fuck up
Good idea. Let's rely only on the NYT and other unbiased mainstream medias to tell us what is happening
Obama did direct the DOJ to use "Operation Choke Point" to destroy the porn industry.
The practice works by manipulating search ads to promote dubious apps in the App Store and then preys on unsuspecting users via the in-app purchase mechanism
That's not a scam, that's a business model.
It's one of those persistent management misconceptions: let's have small identical lego blocks that can be swapped around and that all have the same needs. Then they wonder why productivity is so low.
I had this discussion with a PM recently. They were complaining about a project that kept missing deadlines and that had low quality output. I said: you need a rockstar like such or such developer. The PM said; oh no we don't want to have different skill sets across the team, it's too difficult to reassign tasks.
The problem with PM is the same as with HR. People who have jobs with no complex expertise requirement tend to think all jobs are easy and that it's all a matter of man-hour or budget.
Only the CEO is accountable to the board. The CTO is accountable to the CEO. The VP-IT (or whatever) is accountable to the CTO. And down it goes until it gets to the idiot who couldn't follow instructions. Where do you draw the line? The executive who derives priorities based on the overall business strategy? The manager who is supposed to enforce policies? Risk management people who didn't foresee or implement safeguards? Team lead who didn't train or supervise the newb properly?
This is a witch hunt and it won't bring back the lost data. The blame game is never the best way to move forward. Processes and controls, that's how you tame the beast.