Nope, they didn't The issue that I have with this is that points of sale will drastically decrease. Currently you can get simcards literally everywhere. (Every news stand, soda salesguy or cigarette shop will sell you one.) Already word on the street is that this is 'mafan' (hassle) if nothing else and people will stop selling.
I think you already think too much like a computer;-)
Lines of code or number of problems fixed are not things I can send my client invoices for. Delivering the agreed products on the agreed dates is.
I measure my programmers performance by their ability to meet the agreed deadline. A deadline usually proposed by themselves and regarded as reasonable by everyone involved, including a number of their peer programmers and myself.
Really, if you deal with humans as humans rather than as machines, things become very measurable. Some of them actually spend their time at the office just to interact with their peers, brainstorm and kick around some ideas while they do much of the actual coding at home during the night. This is totally cool with me and doesn't in any way affect my ability to measure their performance.
I can't speak for other employers, but I would never hire someone without having measurable expectations. (I honestly don't see how I could hire someone without telling them what I expect from them.)
I'll agree with you though that there are companies who turn simple performance measurement into a fake science and come up with incomprehensible matrixes and what not that serve no real purpose other than to make them money.
Obviously.
But I would be looking at my HR dept. and managers more than the sales guys. In reality though, I haven't seen this happen. The majority of the employees we hire understand that if they respect the companies needs, it respects theirs too. The occasional rotten apple is usually quickly identified and removed.
I dare argue that the spying mentality gets the good guys down more than it gets the bad guys up.
At a number of companies I've seen that any phone number not in the company address book is considered private. The company address book would obviously not be private and reviewed occasionally.
How about we judge you on your performance instead? E.g. customer retention, sales, or whatever is suitable for your role.
I wouldn't care if my top sales guy is on facebook all day, he would still be my top sales guy.
So why are you paying for the internet connection if you don't want them to use it? Just so you can spy on them like a little perv? There's no law stating you need to provide them internet. You can simply disconnect it or, if they need certain sites/mail to perform their job, allow those sites only.
(This is all assuming you fail to set your trust issues aside. IMHO maintaining a good relationship with your staff gets you much more than any monitoring or blocking solution.)
Indeed. I assume that false accusations are illegal under Swedish law. Why aren't we seeing the names of the people that actually committed the crime here.
The N900 was always marketed as a "Mobile Computer", not a phone. (http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/) This is why those who think it should be a phone are whining.
The N810 is bulkier and a bit behind in software version.
There's no obligation to use the N900 with a carrier. I don't. I use it with WiFi exclusively.
I don't see any mention of lizards.. however:
"ICLEI was founded in 1990 as the 'International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives'. The Council was established when more than 200 local governments from 43 countries convened at our inaugural conference, the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, at the United Nations in New York."
Our beloved former Dutch Queen said in the 50's that the Netherlands, with 10 million inhabitants, was full! People were actively encouraged to emigrate to Australia, Canada or other places. Thousands did, though not enough to make a real difference.
We're now 60 years later, the Netherlands houses over 16 million people will still plenty of space (and food and nature!) to spare. What changed? Not that much. Not the people and not (at least not drastically) how they live. Mostly what changed is what's in their mind and what scientists now reason to be the sustainable maximum population.
People are only a disease if they manage to destroy their host and as a consequence themselves. Just because you think we kill too many animal species (which is a shame), doesn't mean we'll run out of things to kill or eat anytime soon. In your reasoning any animal is a disease because it eats other animals. Rubbish. It's not like anyone in US/EU still eats food from "nature". Does it really matter whether you eat a factory grown chicken (as you do now) or a lab grown one (which we may do 50 years from now)? The latter might actually be more "humane".
Interesting to see so many ridicule the guy. If you actually read the original article AND check the ICLEI website, there isn't so much craziness.
The only thing I cannot verify is that the bike program is indeed an ICLEI initiative, though it might just as well be if you read about their other initiatives.
Otherwise he seems to be spot on: ICLEI is a UN organization (see their About page) and is indeed a supporter of (among other things) Agenda 21 (see Programs page) which incorporates population "policy" (nice word for control, art. 5.3., 5.17, etc., etc.).
This is why your home has walls and a roof. You can have your privacy inside. Need a bigger private space? buy a bigger property.
Google isn't destroying anything. You already had 100+ neighbors who could see your yard. Now you have a few virtual neighbors extra. That's it. You won't attract a lot of attention on street view unless you do something really interesting, in which case one of your 100 "real" neighbors would've already put some snapshots online a long time ago.
Trains also need boarding.. if they're long distance trains, boarding will also be slow as people drag their own oversized suitcases and have to stow them themselves. And I promise you, sooner or later boarding a train WILL include security checks.
Trains also need to take off. I know you don't have many trains in America currently so maybe your trains can leave whenever they close their doors, but that's not how it works when trains are a popular means of transportation (like in Europe). Track capacity is limited. Delays will happen for all sorts of reasons, just like with planes.
Most high-speeds trains (as deployed in Europe currently) do NOT have bunks. Sure you can book a sleeper, but it will be a "normal" train rather than the high-speed one. (People who sit are more often awake and people who are awake use the in-train bar and other paid facilities.)
Even if sleeping was an option on the high-speed trains, I'll still save time sleeping on a plane instead. Time which I can use to take a shower, have a good meal, and appear at my meeting feeling much more refreshed than I would waking up in a train with limited facilities.
Seriously? You will replace a 2 hour flight with a 10 hour train ride? And you think a lot of people will do that? Riding a train is a novelty. Something grandpa will do with the grandkids on a rainy autumn holiday. Nobody is going to slow their travel down significantly. Taking off your shoes and going through security (which was for our own good right?) aren't THAT much trouble.
Why assume that trains will not have homeland security lines? Even if they won't initially, it takes just one looney to change that. Have you seen how the TGV's in France and walled-off form the other trains?
Eventually the difference in overhead at the airport and train stations will be negligible, leaving you simply with longer transit times that you would have with a plane.
As a European living in China, two places with extensive train networks, I tell you: it will not work.
Trains are not as convenient or cheap as you may think. I don't know of any country that has a fully profitable train system - they are all subsidized because nobody is willing to pay the real price of a train ticket. Mind you, that's in European countries where gas is already much more expensive than US. Simply cranking up the gas price a little to force a few folks into the train won't cut it.
The real deal with train is this: they are supposedly "greener". This means that if you are against them you are, supposedly, against a better world. On the back of this guilt-trip, the people will be asked to pay for the new trains, some people will be asked to relocate, others will be asked to suffer the noise of a train. All with really just one goal in mind: providing new infrastructure (at your expense) for the GOODS transportation industry. They're the only guys who are going to profit.
These numbers are really only relevant if we also know how many people steal when:
* Leaving the company voluntarily.
* Leaving the company voluntarily as asked (by new employer) to take information.
* Not leaving at all.
* Not leaving at all and offered compensation by a 3rd party to take the data.
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Nope, they didn't The issue that I have with this is that points of sale will drastically decrease. Currently you can get simcards literally everywhere. (Every news stand, soda salesguy or cigarette shop will sell you one.) Already word on the street is that this is 'mafan' (hassle) if nothing else and people will stop selling.
My thoughts exactly. Yes it's a cool place, but it's not new and it's not going to make Wikileaks any better/worse than it is.
Next.
There are a number of Skype-enabled TV's these days. Get one on both ends. Simple, straight-forward and nice big pictures.
I think you already think too much like a computer ;-)
Lines of code or number of problems fixed are not things I can send my client invoices for. Delivering the agreed products on the agreed dates is.
I measure my programmers performance by their ability to meet the agreed deadline. A deadline usually proposed by themselves and regarded as reasonable by everyone involved, including a number of their peer programmers and myself.
Really, if you deal with humans as humans rather than as machines, things become very measurable. Some of them actually spend their time at the office just to interact with their peers, brainstorm and kick around some ideas while they do much of the actual coding at home during the night. This is totally cool with me and doesn't in any way affect my ability to measure their performance.
I can't speak for other employers, but I would never hire someone without having measurable expectations. (I honestly don't see how I could hire someone without telling them what I expect from them.) I'll agree with you though that there are companies who turn simple performance measurement into a fake science and come up with incomprehensible matrixes and what not that serve no real purpose other than to make them money.
Obviously. But I would be looking at my HR dept. and managers more than the sales guys. In reality though, I haven't seen this happen. The majority of the employees we hire understand that if they respect the companies needs, it respects theirs too. The occasional rotten apple is usually quickly identified and removed. I dare argue that the spying mentality gets the good guys down more than it gets the bad guys up.
I don't disagree Facebook can make performance suffer. I'm just saying I'll fire the affected person for poor performance, not for using Facebook.
At a number of companies I've seen that any phone number not in the company address book is considered private. The company address book would obviously not be private and reviewed occasionally.
How about we judge you on your performance instead? E.g. customer retention, sales, or whatever is suitable for your role. I wouldn't care if my top sales guy is on facebook all day, he would still be my top sales guy.
So why are you paying for the internet connection if you don't want them to use it? Just so you can spy on them like a little perv? There's no law stating you need to provide them internet. You can simply disconnect it or, if they need certain sites/mail to perform their job, allow those sites only. (This is all assuming you fail to set your trust issues aside. IMHO maintaining a good relationship with your staff gets you much more than any monitoring or blocking solution.)
Just make the game free and charge for the online game play in a micropayment fashion.
Interesting. If that's how it works, it's all the more suspicious that they "on-call" guy cooperated like this.
All governments play dirty to some extend. But that doesn't mean they always play well together.
Indeed. I assume that false accusations are illegal under Swedish law. Why aren't we seeing the names of the people that actually committed the crime here.
The N900 was always marketed as a "Mobile Computer", not a phone. (http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/) This is why those who think it should be a phone are whining.
The N810 is bulkier and a bit behind in software version. There's no obligation to use the N900 with a carrier. I don't. I use it with WiFi exclusively.
I don't see any mention of lizards.. however: "ICLEI was founded in 1990 as the 'International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives'. The Council was established when more than 200 local governments from 43 countries convened at our inaugural conference, the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, at the United Nations in New York."
Our beloved former Dutch Queen said in the 50's that the Netherlands, with 10 million inhabitants, was full! People were actively encouraged to emigrate to Australia, Canada or other places. Thousands did, though not enough to make a real difference. We're now 60 years later, the Netherlands houses over 16 million people will still plenty of space (and food and nature!) to spare. What changed? Not that much. Not the people and not (at least not drastically) how they live. Mostly what changed is what's in their mind and what scientists now reason to be the sustainable maximum population. People are only a disease if they manage to destroy their host and as a consequence themselves. Just because you think we kill too many animal species (which is a shame), doesn't mean we'll run out of things to kill or eat anytime soon. In your reasoning any animal is a disease because it eats other animals. Rubbish. It's not like anyone in US/EU still eats food from "nature". Does it really matter whether you eat a factory grown chicken (as you do now) or a lab grown one (which we may do 50 years from now)? The latter might actually be more "humane".
Interesting to see so many ridicule the guy. If you actually read the original article AND check the ICLEI website, there isn't so much craziness. The only thing I cannot verify is that the bike program is indeed an ICLEI initiative, though it might just as well be if you read about their other initiatives. Otherwise he seems to be spot on: ICLEI is a UN organization (see their About page) and is indeed a supporter of (among other things) Agenda 21 (see Programs page) which incorporates population "policy" (nice word for control, art. 5.3., 5.17, etc., etc.).
This is why your home has walls and a roof. You can have your privacy inside. Need a bigger private space? buy a bigger property. Google isn't destroying anything. You already had 100+ neighbors who could see your yard. Now you have a few virtual neighbors extra. That's it. You won't attract a lot of attention on street view unless you do something really interesting, in which case one of your 100 "real" neighbors would've already put some snapshots online a long time ago.
Trains also need boarding.. if they're long distance trains, boarding will also be slow as people drag their own oversized suitcases and have to stow them themselves. And I promise you, sooner or later boarding a train WILL include security checks. Trains also need to take off. I know you don't have many trains in America currently so maybe your trains can leave whenever they close their doors, but that's not how it works when trains are a popular means of transportation (like in Europe). Track capacity is limited. Delays will happen for all sorts of reasons, just like with planes. Most high-speeds trains (as deployed in Europe currently) do NOT have bunks. Sure you can book a sleeper, but it will be a "normal" train rather than the high-speed one. (People who sit are more often awake and people who are awake use the in-train bar and other paid facilities.) Even if sleeping was an option on the high-speed trains, I'll still save time sleeping on a plane instead. Time which I can use to take a shower, have a good meal, and appear at my meeting feeling much more refreshed than I would waking up in a train with limited facilities.
Seriously? You will replace a 2 hour flight with a 10 hour train ride? And you think a lot of people will do that? Riding a train is a novelty. Something grandpa will do with the grandkids on a rainy autumn holiday. Nobody is going to slow their travel down significantly. Taking off your shoes and going through security (which was for our own good right?) aren't THAT much trouble.
Why assume that trains will not have homeland security lines? Even if they won't initially, it takes just one looney to change that. Have you seen how the TGV's in France and walled-off form the other trains? Eventually the difference in overhead at the airport and train stations will be negligible, leaving you simply with longer transit times that you would have with a plane.
As a European living in China, two places with extensive train networks, I tell you: it will not work. Trains are not as convenient or cheap as you may think. I don't know of any country that has a fully profitable train system - they are all subsidized because nobody is willing to pay the real price of a train ticket. Mind you, that's in European countries where gas is already much more expensive than US. Simply cranking up the gas price a little to force a few folks into the train won't cut it. The real deal with train is this: they are supposedly "greener". This means that if you are against them you are, supposedly, against a better world. On the back of this guilt-trip, the people will be asked to pay for the new trains, some people will be asked to relocate, others will be asked to suffer the noise of a train. All with really just one goal in mind: providing new infrastructure (at your expense) for the GOODS transportation industry. They're the only guys who are going to profit.
These numbers are really only relevant if we also know how many people steal when: * Leaving the company voluntarily. * Leaving the company voluntarily as asked (by new employer) to take information. * Not leaving at all. * Not leaving at all and offered compensation by a 3rd party to take the data.