Does Microsoft let you publish your own apps or do they lock the phones down and play god like Apple? I'm not interested in spending one second developing on a platform that censors my code. This is why I won't develop for iPhone or BREW. I'm sticking with Android but will develop for WP7 if and only if it's open. I've had a number of windows mobile devices.
Unfortunately for them, any (icky term) "Cyber warrior" who isn't a masochist or mentally defective is not on the government's side. A few kids trying to legitimize their egos occasionally try to get some validation there but most of them are script kiddies.
The spit shined, brush cut types the military loves tend not to be able to think laterally which is cripling for this kind of work.
Well then no one would listen to the blathering old idiots they put out to pasture to teach undergrad courses. They would read it in the texts or get the lecture of the internet. Damn if only I could have fast forwarded some of my profs' lectures.
OS/2 was never very good. Sure it was better than win3.1 on paper but all the apps were win3.1 so it only caused issues due to slight incompatabilities. My roomate would use my computer all the time because his OS/2 machine was ALWAYS having problems. He used to write technical articles about OS/2. The add on tcp/ip stack was shit and was constantly causing issues. Windows 95 blew it out of the water(using a lot of its own ideas) good riddance. Amiga Dos was vastly superior.
I've used pictures before and they do work for a lot of people. The approach I generally use is to think of an error message like spam. To the user it is spam..they just want to accomplish their task and most don't like the computer at all. This message is just an annoyance. So you approach it like a spammer. 1) you can scare them into reading it. I would send out a critical virus update with the title "ACTION IMMEDIATELY TO AVOID SERVICE INTERRUPTION" You do run the risk of the boy who cried wolf so use it sparingly. Much like spam the caps lock is cruise control to awesome. 2) Hook it to something they want. Give a away some new mouse pads or something for early response. 3) Fake authority: Have a director sign off on it and send out a message people would never read if it came from you. 4)You could try promising them a larger penis but that might be NSFW
Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs got where they are today by cheating other people. I wish I had cheated more in school..it's one of the few life skills you can learn there. Your morals don't seem to have much bearing on real world success.
It's pretty common terminology. A lot of it is ITIL. I've never seen ITIL work on the ground. It works great on paper. We just ended up with accountants making IT policy. It's like having plumbers doing brain surgery.
ROI in terms of "profit" booked. The business would have to negotiate a number for how much steady state is worth. If the business doesn't bid enough then they'll get their patches once a month and they won't be tested as rigorously.
I can hire 5 people from India for your salary and they will accomplish about twice what you do(all totaled). They tried to outsource my department..it failed. We were able to get rid of most of the developers since they're a dime a dozen. I do both coding and 3rd level support and the support people are by far more competent with a computer than the developers who get lost outside their IDE. Your software won't be worth crap if you can't get it distributed.
Ya if they really wanted to run IT as a business what they would have to do is, at the start of a project, negotiate how much the project was worth to the business and what IT's cut will be. They could book that as profit. Projects that simply don't have enough ROI for IT would be left to twist in the wind. The same thing could be done with incidents maybe at the category level. Have people decide what the potential loss/hour is on an incident and book that as cost savings IT generated for the company. If an incident isn't losing quantifiable money then don't expect anyone soon. IT does book profit but the problem is that if we make accounting more efficient with our hard work all the accountants get nice bonuses and we get to go fuck ourselves.
I would push for this if I could sell these people on a functional backup system for the users. I can't afford to lower my chances at recovering HDs where no backup exists. I also have 11000 computers to deal with in my environment. If it costs $1 per seat for software then I will have no hope at getting funding.
Actually dipshit I spend most of my time cleaning up the devastation left in the wake of morons who think outsourcing is a good idea. If you want to hire an IT guy at my level that lives in a mud hut go ahead. I'll charge you triple to bail your sorry ass out later. Look at the ROI numbers on outsourcing. The only real advantage to outsourcing is that it raises the ratio of profit to salaried headcount. It's robbing Peter to pay Paul. It's a great way for an executive who know's he'll be out the door in the near future to get a big bonus but it fucks the company.
I used to kill myself. Work my ass off. I accepted excuses as to why I couldn't get a raise or a promotion even though I was told I earned one. People I learned were making big bonuses were telling me there was no money for bonuses. Then the excuses started to pile up year after year and I watched other people who worked less and had less responsibility get paid more because they were not IT. I watched it happen to all my co-workers too so I know it wasn't something I was doing. So if I can't get paid more I just give less. I'm naturally a hard worker so I had to train myself but now I'm happy to say I am taking advantage of the fucking parasites who were ever so happy to take advantage of me. It's not a good relationship or the one I would have chosen but at least I'm no longer the bitch. I'd type more but I got in late so it's almost time for my coffee break.
Actually Microsoft will be happy to tell you what their licensing options are. There's a course on it. That's right they make hideously complicated licensing schemes and then make you PAY to be told what they are. The fucking thieves should have been shut down and all assets seized years ago.
I used to think this until I realized that I was paying Blizzard for the simulated experience of waiting for public transportation. I could get a more immersive experience by putting on a troll mask and riding the subway. There are even some dialects of Chinese that sound a little like murloc. On the other hand I'd love for my IRL military training to count in call of duty.
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No actually he's a scumbag..it's more likely to screw the consumer knowing his track record.
I do not develop for children's toys, I'm an Android developer. What I distribute is between me and my customers.
After companies doing everything they can possibly do to fuck their employees they have the gall to complain about getting fucked back? Screw them.
Does Microsoft let you publish your own apps or do they lock the phones down and play god like Apple? I'm not interested in spending one second developing on a platform that censors my code. This is why I won't develop for iPhone or BREW. I'm sticking with Android but will develop for WP7 if and only if it's open. I've had a number of windows mobile devices.
Since public sharing of information saves lives, not sharing is tanamount to murder or at least negligent homicide.
Intellectual Property kills.
There are lots of us.
Unfortunately for them, any (icky term) "Cyber warrior" who isn't a masochist or mentally defective is not on the government's side. A few kids trying to legitimize their egos occasionally try to get some validation there but most of them are script kiddies.
The spit shined, brush cut types the military loves tend not to be able to think laterally which is cripling for this kind of work.
Memristor technology is promising 2 petabytes in a cm^3
In soviet Russia the platform closes you.
Well then no one would listen to the blathering old idiots they put out to pasture to teach undergrad courses. They would read it in the texts or get the lecture of the internet. Damn if only I could have fast forwarded some of my profs' lectures.
When was the last virus outbreak that caused this much damage?
I thought it was the fucker who won't hurry up and gimme my sammich that made me impatient.
I want to use C64 GeOS as my window manager.
OS/2 was never very good. Sure it was better than win3.1 on paper but all the apps were win3.1 so it only caused issues due to slight incompatabilities. My roomate would use my computer all the time because his OS/2 machine was ALWAYS having problems. He used to write technical articles about OS/2. The add on tcp/ip stack was shit and was constantly causing issues. Windows 95 blew it out of the water(using a lot of its own ideas) good riddance. Amiga Dos was vastly superior.
I've used pictures before and they do work for a lot of people.
The approach I generally use is to think of an error message like spam. To the user it is spam..they just want to accomplish their task and most don't like the computer at all. This message is just an annoyance. So you approach it like a spammer. 1) you can scare them into reading it. I would send out a critical virus update with the title "ACTION IMMEDIATELY TO AVOID SERVICE INTERRUPTION" You do run the risk of the boy who cried wolf so use it sparingly. Much like spam the caps lock is cruise control to awesome. 2) Hook it to something they want. Give a away some new mouse pads or something for early response.
3) Fake authority: Have a director sign off on it and send out a message people would never read if it came from you. 4)You could try promising them a larger penis but that might be NSFW
Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs got where they are today by cheating other people.
I wish I had cheated more in school..it's one of the few life skills you can learn there. Your morals don't seem to have much bearing on real world success.
It's pretty common terminology.
A lot of it is ITIL. I've never seen ITIL work on the ground. It works great on paper. We just ended up with accountants making IT policy. It's like having plumbers doing brain surgery.
ROI in terms of "profit" booked. The business would have to negotiate a number for how much steady state is worth. If the business doesn't bid enough then they'll get their patches once a month and they won't be tested as rigorously.
I can hire 5 people from India for your salary and they will accomplish about twice what you do(all totaled).
They tried to outsource my department..it failed.
We were able to get rid of most of the developers since they're a dime a dozen.
I do both coding and 3rd level support and the support people are by far more competent with a computer than the developers who get lost outside their IDE.
Your software won't be worth crap if you can't get it distributed.
Ya if they really wanted to run IT as a business what they would have to do is, at the start of a project, negotiate how much the project was worth to the business and what IT's cut will be. They could book that as profit. Projects that simply don't have enough ROI for IT would be left to twist in the wind. The same thing could be done with incidents maybe at the category level. Have people decide what the potential loss/hour is on an incident and book that as cost savings IT generated for the company. If an incident isn't losing quantifiable money then don't expect anyone soon.
IT does book profit but the problem is that if we make accounting more efficient with our hard work all the accountants get nice bonuses and we get to go fuck ourselves.
I would push for this if I could sell these people on a functional backup system for the users.
I can't afford to lower my chances at recovering HDs where no backup exists.
I also have 11000 computers to deal with in my environment. If it costs $1 per seat for software then I will have no hope at getting funding.
Actually dipshit I spend most of my time cleaning up the devastation left in the wake of morons who think outsourcing is a good idea. If you want to hire an IT guy at my level that lives in a mud hut go ahead. I'll charge you triple to bail your sorry ass out later. Look at the ROI numbers on outsourcing. The only real advantage to outsourcing is that it raises the ratio of profit to salaried headcount. It's robbing Peter to pay Paul. It's a great way for an executive who know's he'll be out the door in the near future to get a big bonus but it fucks the company.
I used to kill myself. Work my ass off. I accepted excuses as to why I couldn't get a raise or a promotion even though I was told I earned one. People I learned were making big bonuses were telling me there was no money for bonuses. Then the excuses started to pile up year after year and I watched other people who worked less and had less responsibility get paid more because they were not IT. I watched it happen to all my co-workers too so I know it wasn't something I was doing. So if I can't get paid more I just give less. I'm naturally a hard worker so I had to train myself but now I'm happy to say I am taking advantage of the fucking parasites who were ever so happy to take advantage of me. It's not a good relationship or the one I would have chosen but at least I'm no longer the bitch. I'd type more but I got in late so it's almost time for my coffee break.
It turns out that repeated wedgies led to population reduction below sustainable levels.
Actually Microsoft will be happy to tell you what their licensing options are. There's a course on it. That's right they make hideously complicated licensing schemes and then make you PAY to be told what they are. The fucking thieves should have been shut down and all assets seized years ago.
Interesting how the symbol of management is also handy if you happen to be a drooling idiot who wants to keep their shirt clean.
I used to think this until I realized that I was paying Blizzard for the simulated experience of waiting for public transportation.
I could get a more immersive experience by putting on a troll mask and riding the subway. There are even some dialects of Chinese that sound a little like murloc. On the other hand I'd love for my IRL military training to count in call of duty.