I have to agree with the overall sentiment here....and I am sure that anyone with experience can tell their own war stories of dealing with a professional "manager" that thinks they only have to manage people and don't need to know anything about the job those people do... I can't stand those as I don't find it to be true.
I used to be the first person to bring up the past examples of someone being "promoted out of their sphere of incompetence"... but I was lucky enough that whenever I came across those people, they had always managed to actually end up as good managers... they had the mindset for management much more than they were technically capable of delivery.
For myself I have recently changed jobs and moved from a management role, back in to consulting... and as much as I complained about dealing with the HR stuff "because I'm a techie"... I now find myself the first person raising his hand and volunteering to help set up a brand new graduate program with personal mentoring and career guidance for the first time for my current company.... I now see the things I can offer beyond just the technical and find that I want to challenge myself in those areas... (and for a while longer keeping myself current on the tech and walking the walk as a consultant)... I'm sure at some point in the future I'll get sick of dealing with clients face-to-face and I'll end up back doing an internal management role...
but for now.. I have my nerd propeller... so let me code and test in peace:-)
OK, so Micro$haft have come up with a cost model that in the short term "may" allow the laptops to be purchased for the same money, but ffs can't people look long term with this stuff and not just the initial up front cost.
So you aren't paying the MS tax for office now, but instead you are just amoritising that cost over years of needing larger internet bandwidth to the "cloud". With some of the crap being bandied about down here lets go out on the edge and look at issues with this...
- The new $8Billion national broadband network of which one core issue is to provide school networks if it doesn't come off then stuffed internet for schools means no cloud that will be useful
- The great aussie internet fence (like the rabbit proof fence not the great wall)... if you are using the cloud lets hope no cloud server accidently gets put on the black list...
- I have not seen anything from MS that show the ongoing cost analysis of this
- how much to upgrade the version of office in the 'cloud'?
- how and at what cost to get non-MS products into this mysterios 'cloud'?
- when are MS going to force me to upgrade ALL my netbooks because the latest cloud products don't work on the old core netbook OS? (and it will be forced look at their track record)
Basically, I don't like ther risks or the costings of this cloud computing model for schools like this...
Well I don't know how things work in the US for charities but some of them do down here in Australia would have the same issues if you researched in to how they dispense their monies.......BUT... please don't put all of the larger corporate style charities into the same bin...
I have had quite a few friends that have worked for a variety of these and can tell you that the better ones have firm rules on what money goes where, now some of this information is prob 5-10 years old, some is much more current.
World Vision: raise money from both normal "unwashed masses" fundraising activities and also specific coporate ones. Here in Aus all operating expenses for the charity is paid for out of specific CORPORATE funding, that was targetted and received for that specific purpose. They are the only ones that I found that have expressly confirmed that 100% of my personal donation will go to their aid programs. Also from their overall fundraising they have to operate on less than 11% of their total corporate donations.
Save the Kids (or some name like that): I was speaking to one of their streetside fundraisers about their cost structures, and she was very proud in saying that her salary and the operating costs use less than 10% of the totalled donations. I tried to validate that but found nothing else to validate it. Just more cases of them patting themselves on the back and qouting the numbers.
Red Cross: Here in Aus they operate similarly to World Vision. They do corporate fundraising to cover operating costs, and a percentage of non-targetted donations are used to make up any shortfall. But if you donate to a specific aid program then that money is garunteed to go to the ppl being helped by that program.
Save the Rainforest (or other similar "green" campaigns): (note: I'm a technogeek surprisingly and I lean green in my political views) I haven't found a good one of these apart from the local Wilderness Society from my home state of Tasmania. But I see them more as a political activist movement than a non-profit, so I don't mind as much where the money goes.
Specific Campaigns: we have the usual big fundraising campaigns for things like Childrens Hospitals, Cancer Research, SIDS, etc. Again most of these are audited here in Aus and you can find out the details of how the costs of running the campaigns is paid for out of specific targetted fundraising from corporates, so that the millions raised from the masses goes to where it is needed, and any extra from the corps goes into the pot as well.
you can have all the fancy schmancy computer stuff to monitor your whole body and all that jazz... but I still want my personal jetpack which I've already been promised for years... and I don't care the size of the harddrive in it...
but the site in question in your analogy isnt 'the adult', it is a completely independant person that doesnt know the minor or the adult or where to get the beer...
this 3rd person can only tell the minor that if they go over there and speak to someone called Fred (ie, the uri for the.torrent or 'adult') and they might be able to get it for you... but I don't no if they actually have it or will give it to you.. that is up to them.
So this is where I have an issue with the sueing of the admins of the isp that hosted the site. I am in Australia but I am too lazy to look up the law on what the responsibility is of the ISP to remove something, that MIGHT NOT be illegal anyway.
There is always the issue of consipiring with the adult but in this case the ISP wasn't even the 3rd party, they were just the person that.. to follow the analogy... let people have a wall to put up posters to say "come to me if you want any of this stuff, that I don't actually have, but I might be able to put you in touch with someone who does"...
Now to my way of thinking the ISP is acting more like a Telephone Directory... providing a place for ppl to advertise their own services, and shouldnt be held responsible for what those ppl do with it.
If the MPAA want something removed because it is illegal, let them go to court and get an order just like they would to have to come and force me to take something off my physical wall.
I am thinking that you mean the royal 'we' there and are somehow talking for the whole of US society?
Just because your social/political grouping sees it as a basic part of 'life' does not mean that society in general sees it as such, and I would hazard to guess that if it was such an entrenched social defacto standard as you suggest then no government would be concerned at allowing it.
But basically, there is no overwhelming social majority on one side or the other. There are big camps on both sides, with some valid concerns and some crap too. In the middle is the large group who don't consider abortion even an issue until it directly involves their lives, and could most likely not give an honest choice either way.
We can tell where you sit, but you can't tell the world where my opinion rests and have no right to speak on my behalf.
So.....it is agreed:)
We shall embrace and extend - we see their API and raise it a dollar.
*leans over table* - I am glad we all agree - lets break for lunch.
btw: get wine together with SDL, and OpenGL: oh and press coverage is here: http://www.linuxgames.com/
Have fun hackers:)
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I have to agree with the overall sentiment here....and I am sure that anyone with experience can tell their own war stories of dealing with a professional "manager" that thinks they only have to manage people and don't need to know anything about the job those people do... I can't stand those as I don't find it to be true. I used to be the first person to bring up the past examples of someone being "promoted out of their sphere of incompetence"... but I was lucky enough that whenever I came across those people, they had always managed to actually end up as good managers... they had the mindset for management much more than they were technically capable of delivery. For myself I have recently changed jobs and moved from a management role, back in to consulting... and as much as I complained about dealing with the HR stuff "because I'm a techie"... I now find myself the first person raising his hand and volunteering to help set up a brand new graduate program with personal mentoring and career guidance for the first time for my current company.... I now see the things I can offer beyond just the technical and find that I want to challenge myself in those areas... (and for a while longer keeping myself current on the tech and walking the walk as a consultant)... I'm sure at some point in the future I'll get sick of dealing with clients face-to-face and I'll end up back doing an internal management role... but for now.. I have my nerd propeller... so let me code and test in peace :-)
well... even old farts can learn new tricks...
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Enjoy
OK, so Micro$haft have come up with a cost model that in the short term "may" allow the laptops to be purchased for the same money, but ffs can't people look long term with this stuff and not just the initial up front cost.
So you aren't paying the MS tax for office now, but instead you are just amoritising that cost over years of needing larger internet bandwidth to the "cloud". With some of the crap being bandied about down here lets go out on the edge and look at issues with this...
- The new $8Billion national broadband network of which one core issue is to provide school networks if it doesn't come off then stuffed internet for schools means no cloud that will be useful
- The great aussie internet fence (like the rabbit proof fence not the great wall)... if you are using the cloud lets hope no cloud server accidently gets put on the black list...
- I have not seen anything from MS that show the ongoing cost analysis of this
- how much to upgrade the version of office in the 'cloud'?
- how and at what cost to get non-MS products into this mysterios 'cloud'?
- when are MS going to force me to upgrade ALL my netbooks because the latest cloud products don't work on the old core netbook OS? (and it will be forced look at their track record)
Basically, I don't like ther risks or the costings of this cloud computing model for schools like this...
Well I don't know how things work in the US for charities but some of them do down here in Australia would have the same issues if you researched in to how they dispense their monies.... ...BUT... please don't put all of the larger corporate style charities into the same bin...
I have had quite a few friends that have worked for a variety of these and can tell you that the better ones have firm rules on what money goes where, now some of this information is prob 5-10 years old, some is much more current.
World Vision: raise money from both normal "unwashed masses" fundraising activities and also specific coporate ones. Here in Aus all operating expenses for the charity is paid for out of specific CORPORATE funding, that was targetted and received for that specific purpose. They are the only ones that I found that have expressly confirmed that 100% of my personal donation will go to their aid programs. Also from their overall fundraising they have to operate on less than 11% of their total corporate donations.
Save the Kids (or some name like that): I was speaking to one of their streetside fundraisers about their cost structures, and she was very proud in saying that her salary and the operating costs use less than 10% of the totalled donations. I tried to validate that but found nothing else to validate it. Just more cases of them patting themselves on the back and qouting the numbers.
Red Cross: Here in Aus they operate similarly to World Vision. They do corporate fundraising to cover operating costs, and a percentage of non-targetted donations are used to make up any shortfall. But if you donate to a specific aid program then that money is garunteed to go to the ppl being helped by that program.
Save the Rainforest (or other similar "green" campaigns): (note: I'm a technogeek surprisingly and I lean green in my political views) I haven't found a good one of these apart from the local Wilderness Society from my home state of Tasmania. But I see them more as a political activist movement than a non-profit, so I don't mind as much where the money goes.
Specific Campaigns: we have the usual big fundraising campaigns for things like Childrens Hospitals, Cancer Research, SIDS, etc. Again most of these are audited here in Aus and you can find out the details of how the costs of running the campaigns is paid for out of specific targetted fundraising from corporates, so that the millions raised from the masses goes to where it is needed, and any extra from the corps goes into the pot as well.
you can have all the fancy schmancy computer stuff to monitor your whole body and all that jazz... but I still want my personal jetpack which I've already been promised for years... and I don't care the size of the harddrive in it...
but the site in question in your analogy isnt 'the adult', it is a completely independant person that doesnt know the minor or the adult or where to get the beer...
.torrent or 'adult') and they might be able to get it for you... but I don't no if they actually have it or will give it to you.. that is up to them.
this 3rd person can only tell the minor that if they go over there and speak to someone called Fred (ie, the uri for the
So this is where I have an issue with the sueing of the admins of the isp that hosted the site. I am in Australia but I am too lazy to look up the law on what the responsibility is of the ISP to remove something, that MIGHT NOT be illegal anyway.
There is always the issue of consipiring with the adult but in this case the ISP wasn't even the 3rd party, they were just the person that.. to follow the analogy... let people have a wall to put up posters to say "come to me if you want any of this stuff, that I don't actually have, but I might be able to put you in touch with someone who does"...
Now to my way of thinking the ISP is acting more like a Telephone Directory... providing a place for ppl to advertise their own services, and shouldnt be held responsible for what those ppl do with it.
If the MPAA want something removed because it is illegal, let them go to court and get an order just like they would to have to come and force me to take something off my physical wall.
Thats enough for me...
Reapl
To know ones self, is to know the infinite.
I am thinking that you mean the royal 'we' there and are somehow talking for the whole of US society?
Just because your social/political grouping sees it as a basic part of 'life' does not mean that society in general sees it as such, and I would hazard to guess that if it was such an entrenched social defacto standard as you suggest then no government would be concerned at allowing it.
But basically, there is no overwhelming social majority on one side or the other. There are big camps on both sides, with some valid concerns and some crap too. In the middle is the large group who don't consider abortion even an issue until it directly involves their lives, and could most likely not give an honest choice either way.
We can tell where you sit, but you can't tell the world where my opinion rests and have no right to speak on my behalf.
So.....it is agreed :)
We shall embrace and extend - we see their API and raise it a dollar.
*leans over table* - I am glad we all agree - lets break for lunch.
btw: get wine together with SDL, and OpenGL: oh and press coverage is here: http://www.linuxgames.com/
Have fun hackers :)