Because of the way student evaluations work, a professor who pushes students to work harder will end up with bad ratings. Too much homework? Bad rating. Hard tests? Bad rating. Whereas the clown teacher is entertaining, and gets a raise.
But that's how life works now. Have you ever watched a TED talk? Someone goes on stage and tries to deliver nuggets of wisdom in clever, quotable sentences, supported by inspiring infographics. A shallow message of 18 minutes that gets even shallower as cliche statements get tweeted and retweeted, down to the point where they end up on motivational gifs posted on Facebook by overweight single moms during the commercials in Grey's Anatomy.
You want a snapshot of what the world has come to? Go on medium.com and read anything written by James Altucher. Extreme shallowness hidden behind pseudo-motivational babbling.
The problem is not the schools. The problem is the society that led to students yelping their teachers. Next time you Like a "if you exercise your idea muscle by writing ten ideas a day you WILL have a great idea" or some other Altucherism on Facebook, remember that you're contributing to this descent into meaninglessness.
If you want a job you don't go to college, you go to a vocational school. College is where you go to party and enjoy life while you think about what you want to be when you grow up.
The US makes about 70,000 more STEM graduates every year
Can we all stop with this STEM bullshit acronym? STEM bundles together actuaries, nuclear physicists, elevator technicians and old farts who maintain legacy RPG code. It's about as accurate as an astrological sign.
There's a "really funny" story about xscreensaver, that you should look up one day...
Thanks to you, I just went down that rabbit hole. I just couldn't stop reading those email and mailing list exchanges. I can imagine how annoying it must be for the guy to get complaints about bugs in his app that he fixed years ago but that Debian maintainers won't include a more recent version. Here's my favorite part:
Just "being old" is not a bug in itself, so it's not a reason good enough to upgrade, or a reason to ask the user that he/she has to upgrade.
Why is NFC being adopted on various POS devices yet there is no training of the front-end clerks as to the fact that NFC-based payments are being accepted?
Because front-end clerks are disposable resources and NFC hasn't reached yet the threshold that justifies additional training. Keep in mind that many fast food chains and car services are actively working on solutions that would replace low wage workers. There's no incentive to train people.
It's a feature specifically for your bottom line -- to get a little slice of every transaction.
Samsung does NOT add an extra fee on the transaction, contrary to Apple (who charges $0.15 per transaction). Samsung doesn't make money with Samsung Pay, they do it just to make their device more convenient and more popular.
But even if they were adding a fee, technically that would be a feature for the top line (revenue growth), not specifically the bottom line (profit growth). Sometimes the top line helps the bottom line, but not always; for instance, the more rides Uber gets, the more their top line grows, but they're not profitable to they're digging a bigger whole with each ride.
A feature for the bottom line would be something that makes an existing process more efficient. For instance, when Microsoft removed the different webmail interfaces of hotmail, then the one for outlook.com, in favor of the awful outlook web, that was a feature that favored their bottom line since it made it easier for them to support an existing service.
I'd bet a dollar that the bulk of Twitter readers are also bots that look for keywords and trends; actual people interact with that data only via pie charts and summaries. Sure, a few accounts like Trump are actually followed by real people but that's a minority.
Or they could have just bought any domain, and got free webmail and an interface panel for hundreds of users fora couple of dollars a year.
Spot on. For $4/month total (including a free domain) with Bluehost you can have unlimited mailboxes, plus a website, blog, ecommerce site, etc. Sure, you don't get the massive data centers that come with Google or Microsoft mail servers, or their flawless antispam, but it's an annual budget of under $50 for your email to be hosted and they've maintained fairly decent uptime for decades.
And even at that rock-bottom price you still get something more reliable than an in-house solution.
Their first year on the Exchange 358 cloud bullshit would have cost them approximately $15k in licensing.
For a service similar to a Linux mail server, that means they have 250 users (Office365 = $5/mailbox). I don't know how fast you can drive to their office but if their Linux mail server crashes or gets stolen, that's 250 people with no email for as long as it takes for you to fix the problem.
On the other end, if the office loses internet connection (which would also make a Linux server useless), those users can still access their Office365 email from their phone or home internet connection.
Email is a commodity and it's a no-brainer to outsource it to a provider that benefits from economy of scale and state-of-the-art data centers staffed 24x7.
Do you rejoice when you get an email about an upgrade of the vending machines in the company cafeteria, or do you worry about the new machines not carrying the kind of soft drinks or candy bars you're used to? That's basically how a typical office worker feels about computers. Spend a week working helpdesk and you'll understand that very very clearly.
That's why when you manage a large pool of workstations you want the bare minimum that users need to do their work, and why you want that bare minimum to be set in stone. Otherwise you're just annoying users and adding more support tickets to your queue.
90% sounds good, but that's also a 10% failure rate. Ewwwwwwwwww, not good.
That's not how it works. The goal in this kind of situation is not to get a perfect score, it's to get a somewhat reliable one that can be used as an indicator in a larger decision process.
It's like being the owner of a convenience store and seeing a potential customer walking around the aisles. If; 1) the person smells like piss and sweat 2) the person wears multiple layers of mismatched Salvation Army clothes 3) the person is engaged in a conversation with an invisible counterparty 4) the person has shit stains on their shoes
then even if every single one of these observations is only 90% reliable, the big picture clearly tells you that you're dealing with a homeless person and should pay attention to what he's doing.
Would you call that a problem or an incident? This will determine if the service delivery team should focus on identifying a root cause or on meeting the Service Level target.
True, but to be honest, Gartner usually has a good grasp of the industry, and for people with limited tech skills those conferences are a really good source of information.
How the fuck are letters phone friendly? Is it also case sensitive?
- me, to the person who thinks up such stupid things.
It's not case sensitive (on the phone), but the interactive voice menu is so annoying that hackers would probably give up before they could achieve something nefarious anyways.
Maybe the problem is worse than that! Maybe Cisco themselves don't know what a switch does, since they offer an IDS module for their flagship core switch:
And this seems like a serious problem in the networking industry. Apparently Alcatel-Lucent doesn't know either, since there's a built-in IDS in their core switch.
Same here. At home I mostly use Fedora and it's rock solid. Setup is always smooth and installing apps is a breeze. If it was available from a vendor like Dell I'd buy a Fedora machine anytime.
I don't know why they insist on Ubuntu. I've tried it time and again but I always had problems with it, especially on laptops. I think Fedora is smoother because they ship with a bleeding edge kernel, and this helps with recent chipsets. Overall the Red Hat ecosystem feels more polished than the Ubuntu family.
One thing I like about Linux is how easy disk encryption is. I've been robbed and also had laptops stolen while traveling, and although it sucks to pay for new hardware, it's comforting to know that the bastards don't get to mess with my data, listen to my music or read my emails.
I'm a casual gamer and only play on console (yes, I do) so there's nothing for me that works better on Windows than on Fedora. Can't say I'm a fan of LibreOffice though.
That's like when people announce the Death of PC. Originally the story was about the death of a journalist's PC following a coffee spill. But fake news take a life of their own.
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Because of the way student evaluations work, a professor who pushes students to work harder will end up with bad ratings. Too much homework? Bad rating. Hard tests? Bad rating. Whereas the clown teacher is entertaining, and gets a raise.
But that's how life works now. Have you ever watched a TED talk? Someone goes on stage and tries to deliver nuggets of wisdom in clever, quotable sentences, supported by inspiring infographics. A shallow message of 18 minutes that gets even shallower as cliche statements get tweeted and retweeted, down to the point where they end up on motivational gifs posted on Facebook by overweight single moms during the commercials in Grey's Anatomy.
You want a snapshot of what the world has come to? Go on medium.com and read anything written by James Altucher. Extreme shallowness hidden behind pseudo-motivational babbling.
The problem is not the schools. The problem is the society that led to students yelping their teachers. Next time you Like a "if you exercise your idea muscle by writing ten ideas a day you WILL have a great idea" or some other Altucherism on Facebook, remember that you're contributing to this descent into meaninglessness.
What jobs are NOT filled up?
It's a serious query.
What degrees should students be pursuing?
If you want a job you don't go to college, you go to a vocational school. College is where you go to party and enjoy life while you think about what you want to be when you grow up.
The US makes about 70,000 more STEM graduates every year
Can we all stop with this STEM bullshit acronym? STEM bundles together actuaries, nuclear physicists, elevator technicians and old farts who maintain legacy RPG code. It's about as accurate as an astrological sign.
There's a "really funny" story about xscreensaver, that you should look up one day...
Thanks to you, I just went down that rabbit hole. I just couldn't stop reading those email and mailing list exchanges. I can imagine how annoying it must be for the guy to get complaints about bugs in his app that he fixed years ago but that Debian maintainers won't include a more recent version. Here's my favorite part:
Just "being old" is not a bug in itself, so it's not a reason good enough to upgrade, or a reason to ask the user that he/she has to upgrade.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi...
a wuss who sits to pee like a woman
So you're against gender equality?
http://dailycaller.com/2012/06...
Why is NFC being adopted on various POS devices yet there is no training of the front-end clerks as to the fact that NFC-based payments are being accepted?
Because front-end clerks are disposable resources and NFC hasn't reached yet the threshold that justifies additional training. Keep in mind that many fast food chains and car services are actively working on solutions that would replace low wage workers. There's no incentive to train people.
It's a feature specifically for your bottom line -- to get a little slice of every transaction.
Samsung does NOT add an extra fee on the transaction, contrary to Apple (who charges $0.15 per transaction). Samsung doesn't make money with Samsung Pay, they do it just to make their device more convenient and more popular.
But even if they were adding a fee, technically that would be a feature for the top line (revenue growth), not specifically the bottom line (profit growth). Sometimes the top line helps the bottom line, but not always; for instance, the more rides Uber gets, the more their top line grows, but they're not profitable to they're digging a bigger whole with each ride.
A feature for the bottom line would be something that makes an existing process more efficient. For instance, when Microsoft removed the different webmail interfaces of hotmail, then the one for outlook.com, in favor of the awful outlook web, that was a feature that favored their bottom line since it made it easier for them to support an existing service.
I'd bet a dollar that the bulk of Twitter readers are also bots that look for keywords and trends; actual people interact with that data only via pie charts and summaries. Sure, a few accounts like Trump are actually followed by real people but that's a minority.
Amongst other things, Web Assembly can do multi thread support (posix style) and actual sockets.
So it's just like Flash. First, excitement; next, annoyance with constant updates; then security exploits. And finally it gets replaced with HTML6.
Or they could have just bought any domain, and got free webmail and an interface panel for hundreds of users fora couple of dollars a year.
Spot on. For $4/month total (including a free domain) with Bluehost you can have unlimited mailboxes, plus a website, blog, ecommerce site, etc. Sure, you don't get the massive data centers that come with Google or Microsoft mail servers, or their flawless antispam, but it's an annual budget of under $50 for your email to be hosted and they've maintained fairly decent uptime for decades.
And even at that rock-bottom price you still get something more reliable than an in-house solution.
Their first year on the Exchange 358 cloud bullshit would have cost them approximately $15k in licensing.
For a service similar to a Linux mail server, that means they have 250 users (Office365 = $5/mailbox). I don't know how fast you can drive to their office but if their Linux mail server crashes or gets stolen, that's 250 people with no email for as long as it takes for you to fix the problem.
On the other end, if the office loses internet connection (which would also make a Linux server useless), those users can still access their Office365 email from their phone or home internet connection.
Email is a commodity and it's a no-brainer to outsource it to a provider that benefits from economy of scale and state-of-the-art data centers staffed 24x7.
Do you rejoice when you get an email about an upgrade of the vending machines in the company cafeteria, or do you worry about the new machines not carrying the kind of soft drinks or candy bars you're used to? That's basically how a typical office worker feels about computers. Spend a week working helpdesk and you'll understand that very very clearly.
That's why when you manage a large pool of workstations you want the bare minimum that users need to do their work, and why you want that bare minimum to be set in stone. Otherwise you're just annoying users and adding more support tickets to your queue.
I don't hate the Dutch but for some reason they seem to really, really like hardcoding subtitles in pirated movies and that's fairly unpleasant.
90% sounds good, but that's also a 10% failure rate. Ewwwwwwwwww, not good.
That's not how it works. The goal in this kind of situation is not to get a perfect score, it's to get a somewhat reliable one that can be used as an indicator in a larger decision process.
It's like being the owner of a convenience store and seeing a potential customer walking around the aisles. If;
1) the person smells like piss and sweat
2) the person wears multiple layers of mismatched Salvation Army clothes
3) the person is engaged in a conversation with an invisible counterparty
4) the person has shit stains on their shoes
then even if every single one of these observations is only 90% reliable, the big picture clearly tells you that you're dealing with a homeless person and should pay attention to what he's doing.
Translation please? I don't have my buzzword translation chart handy.
Maybe someone needs to "shine a clear spotlight on the need to invest" in your buzzword expertise (as opposed to a non-clear spotlight).
Maybe you need to do an internship in an organization that has implemented Holacracy. Then let's revisit your opinion of org charts.
The title alone made me want to vomit.
Would you call that a problem or an incident? This will determine if the service delivery team should focus on identifying a root cause or on meeting the Service Level target.
True, but to be honest, Gartner usually has a good grasp of the industry, and for people with limited tech skills those conferences are a really good source of information.
People are trying to meet metrics instead of actually getting the job done in many cases.
Spot on. ITSM transforms service delivery teams into mindless ticket machines. I call it: the DMVification of IT.
How the fuck are letters phone friendly? Is it also case sensitive?
- me, to the person who thinks up such stupid things.
It's not case sensitive (on the phone), but the interactive voice menu is so annoying that hackers would probably give up before they could achieve something nefarious anyways.
That's a mighty generous use of the "fake news" term you've taken there. What's up with that? Is that the new thing?
That was so yesterday. Now it's "alternative facts".
I don't think you know what a switch does.
Maybe the problem is worse than that! Maybe Cisco themselves don't know what a switch does, since they offer an IDS module for their flagship core switch:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/pro...
And this seems like a serious problem in the networking industry. Apparently Alcatel-Lucent doesn't know either, since there's a built-in IDS in their core switch.
http://enterprise.alcatel-luce...
And - OMG - even HP is completely confused about this technology, since they also have IDS on their core switch.
Or maybe, just maybe, you vastly overestimate your understanding of enterprise networking.
Same here. At home I mostly use Fedora and it's rock solid. Setup is always smooth and installing apps is a breeze. If it was available from a vendor like Dell I'd buy a Fedora machine anytime.
I don't know why they insist on Ubuntu. I've tried it time and again but I always had problems with it, especially on laptops. I think Fedora is smoother because they ship with a bleeding edge kernel, and this helps with recent chipsets. Overall the Red Hat ecosystem feels more polished than the Ubuntu family.
One thing I like about Linux is how easy disk encryption is. I've been robbed and also had laptops stolen while traveling, and although it sucks to pay for new hardware, it's comforting to know that the bastards don't get to mess with my data, listen to my music or read my emails.
I'm a casual gamer and only play on console (yes, I do) so there's nothing for me that works better on Windows than on Fedora. Can't say I'm a fan of LibreOffice though.
I'd be willing to bet that more peoples' personal data was leaked by bank data breaches than by Tor.
Please name three recent instances of US banks data breaches.
That's like when people announce the Death of PC. Originally the story was about the death of a journalist's PC following a coffee spill. But fake news take a life of their own.