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I don't know of any undergraduate course called "management". The rest of us can't help it that you are ignorant. At least look it up before you act like it is true. Honestly, I'm not convinced you ever even went to college if you have never heard of a course in management.
The list can go on and on. I would say nearly every college in the US has at least one course in management. Nearly every 4 year public college in the US has an undergraduate degree in management or business administration.
When you perform very well at work, you set expectation levels for your managers. Then when you or others don't meet those expectations they are disappointed.
When you go out to eat at a restaurant and it is very good, then the next time not so good, you are disappointed. It did not meet your expectations.
Young people have different expectations about how long it should take to complete certain tasks than older people.
When I search the internet, most people, especially those significantly older than me, cannot even keep up with what I am doing when they watch me. When I am finished, if I did not find anything (or exactly what they want), they can't imagine that I am done. They instead think that I must have given up out of "impatience". In fact I am done. Their expectations are that searching for things take a very long time, one because they are still not used to the internet, and 2 because they are slower with computers in general.
The fact that it takes young people a shorter amount of time to come to the same conclusion or do the same task does not mean that we are impatient. It means we are efficient.
well not exactly like dusting crops, no. then again from jfk's speech in '62 to 69 was 7 years. I would expect it to take less time the second time around. The fact that it will likely take longer (what really gets done on time these days) seems pathetic to the non-engineer, non-astronaut run of the mill person.
ok, sounds reasonable but if it really is as simple as modifying existing rocketry and slapping SRB's on the sides with a modernized apollo capsule, why do we have to wait 7 years for it (2014)? and why can't the shuttle fly until it is ready (or at least until ISS is finished, regardless of deadline)? and can any of the new vehicles maintain the space stations orbit (last i heard was no, and the space station would fall into the atmosphere and burn up)?
If they want to go to the moon, why don't they just whip out the old blueprints and build a saturn rocket and an apollo capsule and go to the moon. it will be cheaper that way so we don't lose as much when they realize there still isn't shit there but dust and moonrocks.
If we wanted to go to the moon and show some sort of progress, and not go back just because China (or pick your favorite space loving country) might go there one day, why don't we try using a vehicle that leaves from and returns to the space station. does that not seem like a good use of a space station? otherwise can we rename it space laboratory?
I am no expert, but popular opinion is not about experts, and my thinking is that popular opinion of this new direction by NASA is going to result in politicians cutting all their funding. Watching them try to reproduce the results of 50 years ago (probably with much difficulty) will be agonizing and will not inspire support for the space program in any way. And god help them if something happens to one of the missions...
This is the typical whining that comes out of big company IT departments. Everything is about them and how hard their job is and how those darned users are always getting in the way. Never an acknowledgment that the users are the reason that they are there, and that IT's job is to enable the users to be as productive as possible in a reasonably secure way relative to the data being handled. Most of this is total whining and BS IMHO.
1. Battery life still bombs.
I except my users laptops to last from 2-3 years. I very, very rarely have to replace a battery before this time is up.
2. Laptops get banged up and broken.
Okay, but OTOH you can't use your desktop at a meeting on the road. This is the one tradeoff of a laptop. Still, the vast majority of our laptops make it through to the 3 year mark unscathed.
3. They're tough to fix, and they die young.
No, they are easy to fix. You tell the manufacturer they are broken, and then they send you another one. If your corporate IT department is wasting their time trying to replace motherboards on laptops, someone needs to be fired. Again, most last to 3 years. Also most decent sized companies lease laptops meaning that at 2-3 years you get new ones anyway.
4. They get lost.
There is a big difference between lost and stolen. Johnny loses his lunch box every once in a while. Mr. Smith should not be losing his laptop. Stolen laptop means "tighten up security". Lost laptop? Maybe you need some personnel changes.
5. They're difficult to secure, digitally and physically...
Not really. It just takes a little more creativity, which is why there are IT departments in the first place. Enforce a firewall policy. Don't allow user defined exceptions. Use a reflector based remote-assistance system such as EchoVNC, or if you are too dumb/lazy/busy to set that up, use GoToAssist. Use good whole disk encryption. Make sure communications like email are setup using SSL instead of plain text. In Windows, you can even setup IPSec between computers, set IPSec to pass through the firewall, use auto enrollment for certificates, and when you are on your office subnets your laptops can be communicated with as if they had no firewall on them at all, enabling updates to be pushed out with no problem.
6.... and security precautions make users nuts.
Only nutty security precautions make users nuts. Not being allowed to change your own desktop wallpaper makes users nuts.
7. Wi-Fi is still the Wild, Wild West.
See #5
8. Laptops spawn a new breed of uber-entitled user.
Um, that is what they are supposed to do. In response to the football draft comment in the article, I again state that maybe you are hiring the wrong people. I somehow doubt that the problems those types are causing are limited to laptops and IT.
9. They're too big or too small.
Oh my god, this is the dumbest list ever. Travel a lot? buy a small one, use a KB, mouse and monitor when at work or at home. Don't travel a lot? Buy whatever size you want and still use a keyboard, mouse and monitor at home.
10. Software performance just ain't the same.
Yes, it is. What the hell? It is a computer just like all computers. I am writing this on a Dell laptop running Ubuntu that I routinely run 2 VM's on during the day and performance is fine. In the past I have played WoW. Performance was fine. My wife's coworkers do autocad on their laptops all the time. PERFORMANCE IS FINE.
More self centered whining from IT. It makes us all look bad.
I agree. In 5 years I will go back to not buying sony electronics just because they are overpriced, and forget about the whole rootkit thing. but until then, it is definitely about the rootkit.
wow you and I must have vastly different opinions of rich.
even if he was on the phone for a straight year you would have 365 days * 24 hours * $10/ hour = $87,600, and I kind of doubt he was no the phone for a year?
but then wouldn't the breeze from he cars on one side of the road cancel out the breeze from cars on the other side of the road? I think I read it was proposed for the median wall... I have never drive this road myself.
OK lets expand this theory a bit. Suppose said kettle....what the hell, lets call it a boiler, is under a turbine and I want to boil water and have the steam turn the turbine. A novel idea. Unforunately it is going to take extra energy to boil the water now, as the increased pressure in the kettle from the pushback of the turbine is going to raise the boiling point of the water.
The car is the kettle, the burner is its engine, and now the engine has to work harder.
I have an xbox, and a playstation. and a nintendo. but the damn things won't run World of Warcraft. And that is what everyone means when they say "it won't run games" right? Just come out and say it. I mean, Linux runs TuxRacer just fine, and TuxRacer is a game.
Linux won't run World of Warcraft.
There, I said it.:)
You are a piss poor video engineer if you think that no one has a 1080p set and you can buy one at best buy sub $2k. I have a Westinghouse LVM-W42 which is 1920x1080 = 1080p - there is also an AVS forum thread about the Westinghouse 1080p line that is a mile long, and tons of people are purchasing them because the quality:price is great.
Sounds like the only thing you are familiar with is projectors, which only a small set of the population have for watching TV.
You wouldn't build a bridge without an engineer, so why build an application that handles billions of dollars without applying the same rules and principles?
I am sure people WOULD build bridges without an engineer if it weren't against the law. Maybe it is time for computer/software engineers to join the rest of the engineering world and have licensure tests, and then require the senior engineer on a project to stamp the code.
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Honestly, I'm not convinced you ever even went to college if you have never heard of a course in management.
University of Washington: school of business administration
http://www.washington.edu/students/crscat/ba.html
Binghamton University: School of Management
http://som.binghamton.edu/
University of GA: Department of Management
http://www.terry.uga.edu/management/
University of Virginia: McIntire School of Commerce Managent Program
http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/academic_programs/undergraduate/management.html
University of Florida: Management Depratment
http://www.cba.ufl.edu/mang/
UNC Charlotte: BS in Business Administration
http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/bachelor-science-business-administration-bsba-degree-courses-major.shtml
The list can go on and on. I would say nearly every college in the US has at least one course in management. Nearly every 4 year public college in the US has an undergraduate degree in management or business administration.
When you perform very well at work, you set expectation levels for your managers. Then when you or others don't meet those expectations they are disappointed.
When you go out to eat at a restaurant and it is very good, then the next time not so good, you are disappointed. It did not meet your expectations.
Young people have different expectations about how long it should take to complete certain tasks than older people.
When I search the internet, most people, especially those significantly older than me, cannot even keep up with what I am doing when they watch me. When I am finished, if I did not find anything (or exactly what they want), they can't imagine that I am done. They instead think that I must have given up out of "impatience". In fact I am done. Their expectations are that searching for things take a very long time, one because they are still not used to the internet, and 2 because they are slower with computers in general.
The fact that it takes young people a shorter amount of time to come to the same conclusion or do the same task does not mean that we are impatient. It means we are efficient.
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well not exactly like dusting crops, no. then again from jfk's speech in '62 to 69 was 7 years. I would expect it to take less time the second time around. The fact that it will likely take longer (what really gets done on time these days) seems pathetic to the non-engineer, non-astronaut run of the mill person.
ok, sounds reasonable but if it really is as simple as modifying existing rocketry and slapping SRB's on the sides with a modernized apollo capsule, why do we have to wait 7 years for it (2014)? and why can't the shuttle fly until it is ready (or at least until ISS is finished, regardless of deadline)? and can any of the new vehicles maintain the space stations orbit (last i heard was no, and the space station would fall into the atmosphere and burn up)?
If they want to go to the moon, why don't they just whip out the old blueprints and build a saturn rocket and an apollo capsule and go to the moon. it will be cheaper that way so we don't lose as much when they realize there still isn't shit there but dust and moonrocks. If we wanted to go to the moon and show some sort of progress, and not go back just because China (or pick your favorite space loving country) might go there one day, why don't we try using a vehicle that leaves from and returns to the space station. does that not seem like a good use of a space station? otherwise can we rename it space laboratory? I am no expert, but popular opinion is not about experts, and my thinking is that popular opinion of this new direction by NASA is going to result in politicians cutting all their funding. Watching them try to reproduce the results of 50 years ago (probably with much difficulty) will be agonizing and will not inspire support for the space program in any way. And god help them if something happens to one of the missions...
This is the typical whining that comes out of big company IT departments. Everything is about them and how hard their job is and how those darned users are always getting in the way. Never an acknowledgment that the users are the reason that they are there, and that IT's job is to enable the users to be as productive as possible in a reasonably secure way relative to the data being handled. Most of this is total whining and BS IMHO. 1. Battery life still bombs. I except my users laptops to last from 2-3 years. I very, very rarely have to replace a battery before this time is up. 2. Laptops get banged up and broken. Okay, but OTOH you can't use your desktop at a meeting on the road. This is the one tradeoff of a laptop. Still, the vast majority of our laptops make it through to the 3 year mark unscathed. 3. They're tough to fix, and they die young. No, they are easy to fix. You tell the manufacturer they are broken, and then they send you another one. If your corporate IT department is wasting their time trying to replace motherboards on laptops, someone needs to be fired. Again, most last to 3 years. Also most decent sized companies lease laptops meaning that at 2-3 years you get new ones anyway. 4. They get lost. There is a big difference between lost and stolen. Johnny loses his lunch box every once in a while. Mr. Smith should not be losing his laptop. Stolen laptop means "tighten up security". Lost laptop? Maybe you need some personnel changes. 5. They're difficult to secure, digitally and physically ...
Not really. It just takes a little more creativity, which is why there are IT departments in the first place. Enforce a firewall policy. Don't allow user defined exceptions. Use a reflector based remote-assistance system such as EchoVNC, or if you are too dumb/lazy/busy to set that up, use GoToAssist. Use good whole disk encryption. Make sure communications like email are setup using SSL instead of plain text. In Windows, you can even setup IPSec between computers, set IPSec to pass through the firewall, use auto enrollment for certificates, and when you are on your office subnets your laptops can be communicated with as if they had no firewall on them at all, enabling updates to be pushed out with no problem.
6. ... and security precautions make users nuts.
Only nutty security precautions make users nuts. Not being allowed to change your own desktop wallpaper makes users nuts.
7. Wi-Fi is still the Wild, Wild West.
See #5
8. Laptops spawn a new breed of uber-entitled user.
Um, that is what they are supposed to do. In response to the football draft comment in the article, I again state that maybe you are hiring the wrong people. I somehow doubt that the problems those types are causing are limited to laptops and IT.
9. They're too big or too small.
Oh my god, this is the dumbest list ever. Travel a lot? buy a small one, use a KB, mouse and monitor when at work or at home. Don't travel a lot? Buy whatever size you want and still use a keyboard, mouse and monitor at home.
10. Software performance just ain't the same.
Yes, it is. What the hell? It is a computer just like all computers. I am writing this on a Dell laptop running Ubuntu that I routinely run 2 VM's on during the day and performance is fine. In the past I have played WoW. Performance was fine. My wife's coworkers do autocad on their laptops all the time. PERFORMANCE IS FINE.
More self centered whining from IT. It makes us all look bad.
I agree. In 5 years I will go back to not buying sony electronics just because they are overpriced, and forget about the whole rootkit thing. but until then, it is definitely about the rootkit.
wow you and I must have vastly different opinions of rich.
/runs away
even if he was on the phone for a straight year you would have 365 days * 24 hours * $10/ hour = $87,600, and I kind of doubt he was no the phone for a year?
What, a figure of speech?
But if I could read slashdot on the way to work, what the hell would I do AT work???
but then wouldn't the breeze from he cars on one side of the road cancel out the breeze from cars on the other side of the road? I think I read it was proposed for the median wall... I have never drive this road myself.
OK lets expand this theory a bit. Suppose said kettle....what the hell, lets call it a boiler, is under a turbine and I want to boil water and have the steam turn the turbine. A novel idea. Unforunately it is going to take extra energy to boil the water now, as the increased pressure in the kettle from the pushback of the turbine is going to raise the boiling point of the water. The car is the kettle, the burner is its engine, and now the engine has to work harder.
I thought we all agreed to stop calling corn 'maize' at the same time we decided belt buckles didn't belong on hats?
I have an xbox, and a playstation. and a nintendo. but the damn things won't run World of Warcraft. And that is what everyone means when they say "it won't run games" right? Just come out and say it. I mean, Linux runs TuxRacer just fine, and TuxRacer is a game. Linux won't run World of Warcraft. There, I said it. :)
So, if oil supports terrorism, and we support oil, and the effect of us using the oil is destroying the world, then the terrorists have already won?
You are a piss poor video engineer if you think that no one has a 1080p set and you can buy one at best buy sub $2k. I have a Westinghouse LVM-W42 which is 1920x1080 = 1080p - there is also an AVS forum thread about the Westinghouse 1080p line that is a mile long, and tons of people are purchasing them because the quality:price is great. Sounds like the only thing you are familiar with is projectors, which only a small set of the population have for watching TV.