While for short periods of time working long hours may help to finish a project or ensure the smoothest launch possible it won't help in the long run.
Productivity typically declines as hours get long and this effect is magnified if the employees feel that work is causing issues with family life. I don't have sources readily available but productivity tends to suffer after approximately 9 hours without an extended (multiple hours away from work) break. This varies by employee and industry but is pretty consistent.
So it may help in the short term but it will ultimately cost him more money as productivity decreases and employee turn over increases.
I have an Eris and love it after I got rid of the factory software which is basically my point.
I never really thought about how awesome the pull down bar is though. I'm just speaking from the perspective of someone who has watched people go both ways between the iPhone and Android gardens.
Exactly. the iPhone sells because it provides such an amazingly refined experience. I have yet to meet an android phone that delivers the same experience. Many of them are very nice but when the open source projects like Cyanogen provide a better phone and environment that the manufacturer there is a very large and glaring problem with the android handsets.
Probably about as much assistance as Microsoft, IBM, and every other company that has products that are used by third parties to deliver a service. Unless you have some evidence that Google was the one putting pressure (undue or otherwise) on the Feds on behalf of Unisys. It's put up or shut up time.
As for backing out of the original contract with MS your article didn't exactly get into that or why they were forced to back out (or even that it happened). The only requorement it doesn't meet is the original locality of the information which they changed. I suspect Unisys put in a protest and won to get that requirement changed. It happens every day with federal contracting.
Yes the Unisys deal ships jobs overseas, that sucks, but how does that equate to Google cheating? Or Unisys cheating for that matter.
Could you clarify your statement? I think I understand your point but I didn't really see any cheating by Unisys much less Google (who last I checked does not own Unisys). All I saw was a government agency, likely under pressure, loosening the rules to focus on the more import aspect (information security). Information location may be relevant to the decision but if Unisys is able to provide a better secured product cheaper regardless of location not only was there no cheating the changes improved the end product.
But you know it's easier to bash a major company like Google then actually get your facts straight and look at the small guy who has been around for longer than Google by a dozen years.
Exactly my point. The ones that ARE leveraging it are seeing the benefit and until CIOs everywhere are the same path there will be continuted long term issues.
While I personally dislike XP at this point it is still a viable corporate OS. There are benefits to moving up to Windows Vista/7 I'm sure but not significant enough yet to justify costs for every company.
Just because iMacs made better aquariums than computers doesn't mean all Macs have that problem. A few of them actually have uses and the new MacBooks make really good stands for my iPad.
So true. It gets even more fun when you're in an environment that is unfriendly the many small moving parts of a printer. Such as areas with large amounts of dust or sand in the air. We used to have printer parties . We'd take a bunch of old (mostly broken) printers out back and find various creative and entertaining ways to disassemle them so they would fit in the disposal barrels.
It's amazing how right this is. The problem also stems from companies that could or should be using IT as a way to improve their core competencies and improve their competitive position aren't because of the recent economic issues. Many people are getting power and influence by riding the penny pinching wave instead of making good long term decisions. We're going to be facing the aftermath of having these people over promoted for a long time to come.
I knew that the first ones didn't lose any support and the slims I think never had it. I don't own a PS3 and only ever considered one due to the BluRay part of it. I apologize for attempting to help clarify a sitaution but was incorrect.
The two disclosures are very different in both nature and scope. The Pentagon Papers were earth shattering in many ways and have served to, likely appropriately, increase the general distrust of the government. History would be written very differently had they not been published. Also publishing the diplomatic volumes would have been very damaging to diplomatic relations at the time.
Wikileaks has no concept of responsible disclosure or anything similar. However the documents they've leaked are at worst embarrassing to the United States and in many ways serves to validate many of their opinions and actions. So while the leak is annoying, it is annoying in the way getting shot with a dollar store squirt gun is annoying. Let me know when they get material they can turn into a fire hose like the Pentagon Papers were.
And Japan as a WHOLE has 10.5 times the population density of the United States and almost 4 times the density of California. He was talking about California not New York and Tokyo.
You're making the point as to why the situation in the US is unacceptable but it has nothing to do with comment about homes in California having 1GB fiber.
I'm not sure you could have missed the point more completely. Compare population density. It's when people like you get stuck on names of places and can't get to the actual point that progress stops and we get politicians.
Is who the first people were up against the wall when the revolution came.
Otherwise this will just come and go, small things will change, new bosses will replace old bosses and the world will move on.
Eventually the United States will decline enough that it enters a post "world ruler" state much like Europe has and we'll get a new dictatorship of culture, likely from East or Southeast Asia. Will it be a bloody or violent change? Only time will tell.
While I'm not judging the validity of your basic premise, though it does seem a tad extremist. SAP was actually in the wrong here and they've effectively admitted as much so you might be banging your drum at the wrong parade...
I wouldn't recommend upgrading to DSL. I would recommend moving. If you're that far out in the wilderness you should either be getting paid enough to afford good enough internet (last sat. internet I used was 5GB daily) or you might want to consider relocation.
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While for short periods of time working long hours may help to finish a project or ensure the smoothest launch possible it won't help in the long run.
Productivity typically declines as hours get long and this effect is magnified if the employees feel that work is causing issues with family life. I don't have sources readily available but productivity tends to suffer after approximately 9 hours without an extended (multiple hours away from work) break. This varies by employee and industry but is pretty consistent.
So it may help in the short term but it will ultimately cost him more money as productivity decreases and employee turn over increases.
I have an Eris and love it after I got rid of the factory software which is basically my point.
I never really thought about how awesome the pull down bar is though. I'm just speaking from the perspective of someone who has watched people go both ways between the iPhone and Android gardens.
Exactly. the iPhone sells because it provides such an amazingly refined experience. I have yet to meet an android phone that delivers the same experience. Many of them are very nice but when the open source projects like Cyanogen provide a better phone and environment that the manufacturer there is a very large and glaring problem with the android handsets.
It works but any time you throw a rock into a pond you get ripples. Big enough rock gets you a tsunami...
Probably about as much assistance as Microsoft, IBM, and every other company that has products that are used by third parties to deliver a service. Unless you have some evidence that Google was the one putting pressure (undue or otherwise) on the Feds on behalf of Unisys. It's put up or shut up time.
As for backing out of the original contract with MS your article didn't exactly get into that or why they were forced to back out (or even that it happened). The only requorement it doesn't meet is the original locality of the information which they changed. I suspect Unisys put in a protest and won to get that requirement changed. It happens every day with federal contracting.
Yes the Unisys deal ships jobs overseas, that sucks, but how does that equate to Google cheating? Or Unisys cheating for that matter.
Could you clarify your statement? I think I understand your point but I didn't really see any cheating by Unisys much less Google (who last I checked does not own Unisys). All I saw was a government agency, likely under pressure, loosening the rules to focus on the more import aspect (information security). Information location may be relevant to the decision but if Unisys is able to provide a better secured product cheaper regardless of location not only was there no cheating the changes improved the end product.
But you know it's easier to bash a major company like Google then actually get your facts straight and look at the small guy who has been around for longer than Google by a dozen years.
Exactly my point. The ones that ARE leveraging it are seeing the benefit and until CIOs everywhere are the same path there will be continuted long term issues.
While I personally dislike XP at this point it is still a viable corporate OS. There are benefits to moving up to Windows Vista/7 I'm sure but not significant enough yet to justify costs for every company.
This just in! The weakest link in the information security chain is the user! More at Eleven!
Just because iMacs made better aquariums than computers doesn't mean all Macs have that problem. A few of them actually have uses and the new MacBooks make really good stands for my iPad.
So true. It gets even more fun when you're in an environment that is unfriendly the many small moving parts of a printer. Such as areas with large amounts of dust or sand in the air. We used to have printer parties . We'd take a bunch of old (mostly broken) printers out back and find various creative and entertaining ways to disassemle them so they would fit in the disposal barrels.
It's amazing how right this is. The problem also stems from companies that could or should be using IT as a way to improve their core competencies and improve their competitive position aren't because of the recent economic issues. Many people are getting power and influence by riding the penny pinching wave instead of making good long term decisions. We're going to be facing the aftermath of having these people over promoted for a long time to come.
Actually I was wrong. My bad.
I knew that the first ones didn't lose any support and the slims I think never had it. I don't own a PS3 and only ever considered one due to the BluRay part of it. I apologize for attempting to help clarify a sitaution but was incorrect.
God I hate fanboys.
Design change, the first gen ones still have it. The ones after had to emulate the PS2 and even that ability has been removed.
The two disclosures are very different in both nature and scope. The Pentagon Papers were earth shattering in many ways and have served to, likely appropriately, increase the general distrust of the government. History would be written very differently had they not been published. Also publishing the diplomatic volumes would have been very damaging to diplomatic relations at the time.
Wikileaks has no concept of responsible disclosure or anything similar. However the documents they've leaked are at worst embarrassing to the United States and in many ways serves to validate many of their opinions and actions. So while the leak is annoying, it is annoying in the way getting shot with a dollar store squirt gun is annoying. Let me know when they get material they can turn into a fire hose like the Pentagon Papers were.
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And Japan as a WHOLE has 10.5 times the population density of the United States and almost 4 times the density of California. He was talking about California not New York and Tokyo.
You're making the point as to why the situation in the US is unacceptable but it has nothing to do with comment about homes in California having 1GB fiber.
I'm not sure you could have missed the point more completely. Compare population density. It's when people like you get stuck on names of places and can't get to the actual point that progress stops and we get politicians.
Poor construction, quality control, and design flaws that are made worse in the cold don't help either.
Is who the first people were up against the wall when the revolution came.
Otherwise this will just come and go, small things will change, new bosses will replace old bosses and the world will move on.
Eventually the United States will decline enough that it enters a post "world ruler" state much like Europe has and we'll get a new dictatorship of culture, likely from East or Southeast Asia. Will it be a bloody or violent change? Only time will tell.
You know it's sad when the most interesting part about the article was that he wants to buy hockey skates and Buffalo Sabres tickets...
Couldn't their algorithm say something like IF name contains Google AND rank is no less than or equal to 5 THEN add one relevancy point?
But seriously a site no one has ever heard of is suing a giant company with lots of money? Jealous much?
While I'm not judging the validity of your basic premise, though it does seem a tad extremist. SAP was actually in the wrong here and they've effectively admitted as much so you might be banging your drum at the wrong parade...
I wouldn't recommend upgrading to DSL. I would recommend moving. If you're that far out in the wilderness you should either be getting paid enough to afford good enough internet (last sat. internet I used was 5GB daily) or you might want to consider relocation.
I've never really thought about hard hacking my car before.
Now I might have a reason?
Sidenote: This would also kill On-Star and similar products.