It's not an entirely lost cause, but there are some caveats.
I work in an environment with a similar ratio. ~400 users and 6 IT people. 2 administrators, 2 techs, 1 on help desk, and 1 web guy. We inherited several kludgy systems when we came on the scene 10 years ago, and daily network interruptions were common and over a hundred trouble calls a day were the norm.
We started by streamlining the networking services. We began replacing the desktop hardware with new equipment to take advantage of warranties and reduce our stockpile of obsolete replacement gear. We upgraded and standardized everything. We purchased tools so we could do a lot of things remotely. We locked down our users. No unauthorized software gets installed, ever. They use a standardized desktop and nothing gets saved to the desktop. Within 2 years we were down to less than a dozen calls per week. It's gone back up since then, but those are external factors.
It was all possible because we had a budget, and really good management.
Business can't adapt to that sort of culture change. It's like the industrial revolution is running headlong into Startrek. We know the future we want, except no-one knows how to make a sensible transition to it. The only people really investing any thought into it is people like the Venus Project (http://www.thevenusproject.com/).
It would be supremely cool to see this sort of transition in my lifetime, but I can't see the amount of political will and co-operation necessary for such a thing ever happening.
Untrue - They will work with at least 32GB. They are SDHC compatible. There's a guy in the 810 community selling MiniSD to SD adapters, so that if you're using the larger battery pack (with accompanying larger battery cover) you can install standard SD cards.
In the movie 'Who Killed the Electric Car', they made the comparison with the EV1 that it was like paying 60 cents a gallon. The short answer is that the cost to move a mile with electricity is significantly cheaper than the cost to move a mile with gasoline.
There are many stories in the military of unqualified or otherwise useless individuals being promoted. There are two primary reasons. First, as you said, because it's nearly impossible to have someone fired. Second, because the one thing that accompanies a promotion is a transfer.
If you've got an addictive personality, you'd be paying for that regardless. MMO's for me have supplanted TV and movie watching, which is far more brain-disengaging (if you ask me).
As far as entertainment goes, they're pretty darn cheap.
That's odd. I've been a Canadian subscriber for at least 2 year, and I listen to Howard Stern every morning. I'm not sure about NFL since I'm not a football fan, but Howard is definitely there.
There's a theory out there that it was our invention of cooking food that put us over the top. Cooking food frees up a lot of energy, meaning you don't have to spend as much time hunting/grazing for the same benefit. If less of your time is spent on just surviving, you have time to invest in art, invention and play.
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Yah, seriously. The internet was like, made for conspiracy crap.
Republican-style Universal Health Care
Too costly, skip the robot step and move entirely digital. The next war should be fought entirely online!
It's not an entirely lost cause, but there are some caveats. I work in an environment with a similar ratio. ~400 users and 6 IT people. 2 administrators, 2 techs, 1 on help desk, and 1 web guy. We inherited several kludgy systems when we came on the scene 10 years ago, and daily network interruptions were common and over a hundred trouble calls a day were the norm. We started by streamlining the networking services. We began replacing the desktop hardware with new equipment to take advantage of warranties and reduce our stockpile of obsolete replacement gear. We upgraded and standardized everything. We purchased tools so we could do a lot of things remotely. We locked down our users. No unauthorized software gets installed, ever. They use a standardized desktop and nothing gets saved to the desktop. Within 2 years we were down to less than a dozen calls per week. It's gone back up since then, but those are external factors. It was all possible because we had a budget, and really good management.
The problem isn't the internet, nor the art, but the economy.
Business can't adapt to that sort of culture change. It's like the industrial revolution is running headlong into Startrek. We know the future we want, except no-one knows how to make a sensible transition to it. The only people really investing any thought into it is people like the Venus Project (http://www.thevenusproject.com/). It would be supremely cool to see this sort of transition in my lifetime, but I can't see the amount of political will and co-operation necessary for such a thing ever happening.
If they don't it's likely a Nemesis plot.
No one thought that? Maybe someone should have bothered to test it.
lol.
Where I work we purchased a plasma cutter for the sole purpose of destroying platters.
Get your SUV out of the way of my progress.
Untrue - They will work with at least 32GB. They are SDHC compatible. There's a guy in the 810 community selling MiniSD to SD adapters, so that if you're using the larger battery pack (with accompanying larger battery cover) you can install standard SD cards.
Just because you bought a crappy mountain bike...
Oddly enough, southern Alberta has tons of windfarms already. I was quite impressed on my last summer's vacation.
In the movie 'Who Killed the Electric Car', they made the comparison with the EV1 that it was like paying 60 cents a gallon. The short answer is that the cost to move a mile with electricity is significantly cheaper than the cost to move a mile with gasoline.
There are many stories in the military of unqualified or otherwise useless individuals being promoted. There are two primary reasons. First, as you said, because it's nearly impossible to have someone fired. Second, because the one thing that accompanies a promotion is a transfer.
... considering I read about this same technology being used in bicycle seat posts to recharge cell-phones and such.
I believe they call this TIDAL power. The moon does a nifty job of it.
Maybe try some better tires.
So it holds half a CD at mediocre quality?
If you've got an addictive personality, you'd be paying for that regardless. MMO's for me have supplanted TV and movie watching, which is far more brain-disengaging (if you ask me). As far as entertainment goes, they're pretty darn cheap.
What are you, a communist?
I'm pretty sure that the 100 Million/Year figure quoted is the budget for his entire show.
That's odd. I've been a Canadian subscriber for at least 2 year, and I listen to Howard Stern every morning. I'm not sure about NFL since I'm not a football fan, but Howard is definitely there.
There's a theory out there that it was our invention of cooking food that put us over the top. Cooking food frees up a lot of energy, meaning you don't have to spend as much time hunting/grazing for the same benefit. If less of your time is spent on just surviving, you have time to invest in art, invention and play.