exactly for that reason. people have different biases coming from personal experience so it is refrashing to hear something else in main stream media. Alas it is probably too much to expect.
I am not pro anything and I do not care. I would prefer to have more open source because I belive competetion and choice are base for quality and reliablity of products. Alas I do not thing this will happen soon so the choice will be limited and if you work for big customer the choices are limited by bad ass we-always-did-it-this-way attitude. Merits do not count. Well most of the time.
This is not the older sement of the society that has a problem. There are people for whom progress equals more news stuff in less time - something olderly alegedly cannot control. These indihviduals grew up now and realized that there is more new things that they can possibly learn about. They noticed that world is bigger than they ever thought. Now they are frustrated and want to be replaced by machines. I think it is a good idea.
I do not see however how age is a factor in decision making - I daresay that old guys can make stupid things at least as fast as the young ones. So what is the big deal?
What I do not understand is rationale behind abusing oneself in order to do more work (I assume that work is primary cause). Getting tired is a way my body and brain tells me that the blood suckers had sucked enough for today. It is good for them and for me that it works this way. If they think otherwise they move their enterprise to china and I search for people with brains that can use my services in intelligent manner.
I knew (and in some cases still do know) people abusing themselves with drugs and/or alcohol. In no case it enhanced their work abilities. In some cases it may have increased their chances for promotion if they consumed drugs with their bosses. In some cases it killed them or made them sick.
If I were to abuse myself with drugs I would do it in a good company i.e. with friends. Still most likely drugs of choice would be barley products or weed. I guess after few joints I would even get the impression that my working abilities increase rapidly:)
I find it fascinating that every now and then new wave of engineers come and tries to tell me how the new shiny tools get rid of all the problems and we all will be happy. I laughed few first times, now I just think how to use their ignorance.
The schools would do some good to all of us if they taught people how to think independently and short AS WELL as long term. It is not theory that is missing. It is thinking capacity. Alas had they really tried to teach people properly, our rulers would not be happy then - would they???
I thought ignorance of my new collegues was somehing iritating once, then I thought it amusing. Now I think it is good because it increases my chances. Of course unless my boss is replaced by another brainless baby that needs to be thaught everything from the scratch.
what age has to do with anything? I regularely get my wife angry while playing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baduk a game that is more than 3.5ky old.
Incidentaly clients for connecting with http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/ for instance, run on linux as well as on windows boxes.
But that is me and my way of playing.
funnily enough this has been proven few times in a studies conducted in UK & Switzerland. Only the swiss had the guts however to show stink finger to the WOD establishment and follow common sense.
One cannot win war on drugs. War on drugs has won, common sense lost.
If your ideas worked then I may be inclined to agree. But it is all bollocks I am afraid. Itis not a purpose of the corporation to be fair. If they find out however that being fair give them advantage then (some of them at least) will try to use this advantage. Outsourcing in itslef is not bad. It is just a normal practice of a company to focus on activities that are main business and outsource others where the company is not a specialist. This said there are countries where the rules are so perverse that from taxes a bonuses are financed for the companies to off-shore jobs. One of such countries is corporation's tax heaven - Germany (social market economy they call it there).
The whole thing with offshoring works for all as long as the country to which offshoring is made develop in a process so that the new capacities that are created there are more and more used up locally. In this way no imbalances will build up. If OTOH modern getthos are created (like the ones by our beloved M$ in India) where poverty is just fenced off and wealth that stays is limited and not distributed - corporations get the upper hand - customer may get their goods cheaper but overall gain is just in hands of the few. At some point it is either fixed by marked forces or by revolution (which in a sense is also controlled by supply and demand). In bad case poverty continues and gets globalized/democratized, in good wealth is created, globalized and democratized.
in a sense you are right. It usually worked like this:
a brilliant manager comes to a new cunning plan to save the company zillions of talars, grosh or whatever - there is this new fashion it is call eeeeee outsourcing let's outsorurce my dep. I do not need these lazy overpaid bastards anyway.
proposal is being made everobody agrees after all even Wanker Weekly wrote about it
majority of customer service engineers are freed fromtheir duties a new CC in Zamunda is opened
Due to layoffs the share price of the corporation is higher than ever - the brilliant manager is rewarded according to his achievments and he has less duties: instead of talking to lazy bustards he has now only one manager in Zamunda to talk too in case of problems or free lunch.
the customers stopped complainig - excellent the brilliant manager says: the new policy works we even have unpredicted profit - no complains. We saved zillions of tallars, got rid of complaining customers and improved the quality - all in one go - we are better than head and shoulders.
unfortunately book keepers notice that orders fall as custmers are pissed off: they either cannot reach the CC or they can but after struggling with new voice manu they find out that the person on the other side of the phone does not understand a word or even if s/he does it serves no purpose as s/he does speak with accent so heavy as it were made of plutonium.
the briliant manager is either given a golden hand-shake or promoted depending on clauses in his contract.
Every new fashion in managment works the same way: short lived fascination and then covering arses of the responsible possibly declaring the whle excercsie as a big success.
Downsizingworked the same way (was it not Amtrack that was so successfuly down-sizing that they did not have any body to drive their trains anymore?)
Sombody was talking about silver bullets around here? It looks like one only the silver is faked.
I would not worry - if OpenOffice gets more popular it will get its share of abuse and fixes too.
Having said that - part of MS problem is systematic: its closed (as oposed to open) design nature is slowing down debugging and more importantly its close relationship with OS is proving fatal to security. OO does not have that.
But that is assuming that there are only two choices: firing squad or no reaction at all and in all but most extreme situations there is plenty of other ways to handle such situations.
I dare say that social skills(*) may be as important as technical means in this case: managing people that manage security is vital and limiting your own motivating choices to whip only is a great limitation indeed. It is better to have carrot, whip and all that there is between. This said one has to accept that sometimes drastic means are neccessary.
* - by social skill I do not mean small talk and chating about weather of course. Not only anyway:)
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exactly for that reason. people have different biases coming from personal experience so it is refrashing to hear something else in main stream media. Alas it is probably too much to expect.
I am not pro anything and I do not care. I would prefer to have more open source because I belive competetion and choice are base for quality and reliablity of products. Alas I do not thing this will happen soon so the choice will be limited and if you work for big customer the choices are limited by bad ass we-always-did-it-this-way attitude. Merits do not count. Well most of the time.
This is not the older sement of the society that has a problem. There are people for whom progress equals more news stuff in less time - something olderly alegedly cannot control. These indihviduals grew up now and realized that there is more new things that they can possibly learn about. They noticed that world is bigger than they ever thought. Now they are frustrated and want to be replaced by machines. I think it is a good idea.
I do not see however how age is a factor in decision making - I daresay that old guys can make stupid things at least as fast as the young ones. So what is the big deal?
What I do not understand is rationale behind abusing oneself in order to do more work (I assume that work is primary cause). Getting tired is a way my body and brain tells me that the blood suckers had sucked enough for today. It is good for them and for me that it works this way. If they think otherwise they move their enterprise to china and I search for people with brains that can use my services in intelligent manner.
:)
I knew (and in some cases still do know) people abusing themselves with drugs and/or alcohol. In no case it enhanced their work abilities. In some cases it may have increased their chances for promotion if they consumed drugs with their bosses. In some cases it killed them or made them sick.
If I were to abuse myself with drugs I would do it in a good company i.e. with friends. Still most likely drugs of choice would be barley products or weed. I guess after few joints I would even get the impression that my working abilities increase rapidly
I find it fascinating that every now and then new wave of engineers come and tries to tell me how the new shiny tools get rid of all the problems and we all will be happy. I laughed few first times, now I just think how to use their ignorance.
The schools would do some good to all of us if they taught people how to think independently and short AS WELL as long term. It is not theory that is missing. It is thinking capacity. Alas had they really tried to teach people properly, our rulers would not be happy then - would they???
I thought ignorance of my new collegues was somehing iritating once, then I thought it amusing. Now I think it is good because it increases my chances. Of course unless my boss is replaced by another brainless baby that needs to be thaught everything from the scratch.
what age has to do with anything? I regularely get my wife angry while playing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baduk a game that is more than 3.5ky old. Incidentaly clients for connecting with http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/ for instance, run on linux as well as on windows boxes. But that is me and my way of playing.
indeed
And where on earth did I say all these things??? Have you been consuming controlled substances or what? Read what I wrote and think again. //
funnily enough this has been proven few times in a studies conducted in UK & Switzerland. Only the swiss had the guts however to show stink finger to the WOD establishment and follow common sense.
One cannot win war on drugs. War on drugs has won, common sense lost.
If your ideas worked then I may be inclined to agree. But it is all bollocks I am afraid. Itis not a purpose of the corporation to be fair. If they find out however that being fair give them advantage then (some of them at least) will try to use this advantage. Outsourcing in itslef is not bad. It is just a normal practice of a company to focus on activities that are main business and outsource others where the company is not a specialist. This said there are countries where the rules are so perverse that from taxes a bonuses are financed for the companies to off-shore jobs. One of such countries is corporation's tax heaven - Germany (social market economy they call it there).
The whole thing with offshoring works for all as long as the country to which offshoring is made develop in a process so that the new capacities that are created there are more and more used up locally. In this way no imbalances will build up. If OTOH modern getthos are created (like the ones by our beloved M$ in India) where poverty is just fenced off and wealth that stays is limited and not distributed - corporations get the upper hand - customer may get their goods cheaper but overall gain is just in hands of the few. At some point it is either fixed by marked forces or by revolution (which in a sense is also controlled by supply and demand).
In bad case poverty continues and gets globalized/democratized, in good wealth is created, globalized and democratized.
Every new fashion in managment works the same way: short lived fascination and then covering arses of the responsible possibly declaring the whle excercsie as a big success. Downsizingworked the same way (was it not Amtrack that was so successfuly down-sizing that they did not have any body to drive their trains anymore?)
Sombody was talking about silver bullets around here? It looks like one only the silver is faked.
I would not worry - if OpenOffice gets more popular it will get its share of abuse and fixes too.
Having said that - part of MS problem is systematic: its closed (as oposed to open) design nature is slowing down debugging and more importantly its close relationship with OS is proving fatal to security. OO does not have that.
But that is assuming that there are only two choices: firing squad or no reaction at all and in all but most extreme situations there is plenty of other ways to handle such situations.
:)
I dare say that social skills(*) may be as important as technical means in this case: managing people that manage security is vital and limiting your own motivating choices to whip only is a great limitation indeed. It is better to have carrot, whip and all that there is between.
This said one has to accept that sometimes drastic means are neccessary.
* - by social skill I do not mean small talk and chating about weather of course. Not only anyway