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Comment Re:gamut (Score 1) 525

Amen. The larger our company grows, the less work satisfaction there is. A few years ago the company instituted mandatory goals and reviews. Up until then the company had been 10% profit sharing. 5% of the profit divided evenly, and the other 5% divided based on salary. No quarterly profit for the company, no sharing check. It really seemed to form a teamwork I help you, you help me environment. After dissolving the profit sharing and going to a goals/review system, immediately there were groups that gamed the goals. Individual and group goal conflicts... How can I meet my goal if I spend time helping you meet your goal... Senseless.

Comment Re:Quit (Score 2) 424

Preach it. Any job where you're the guy that has to fix it... the challenge is a HUGE learning opportunity. Evil boss or no. I've worked for a glory seeking back-stabbing boss before. That in itself is a good learning experience about how to appropriately protect your flank while still being able to do your job (and what kind of boss not to be). All that prior experience helped get me the job I have now, and it just happens to be for a great boss. I'm always in a constant state of character and job skill development. When it no longer is learning opportunity, find another job. Never burn bridges. Ever.

Submission + - TMobile, Verizon, AT&T team to create ISIS (bgr.com)

sunbane writes: This has the potential to directly affect us all — obsoleting our old smart phones, and obsoleting the wallet. We've been seeing hints that new androids and iphones will have NFC built in... looks like the carriers are banding together to power it and work with merchants.

Comment Capital? Hardly... (Score 1) 162

1 data center gets built and they are calling themselves the data center capital of the country? Well, Salt Lake just opened EBAY last summer and has Oracle, Twitter, and a 1.3 Billion dollar data center for the NSA under construction and we don't feel qualified to make that statement. You don't see NC claiming that because of the apple one... with the tax rate of New York I hardly see that many businesses moving there!

Comment Agreed. (Score 1) 579

I'm a fan of the apple products as well. Now if they wanted that Apple TV to make a killing, they should have put a USB or firewire port on there so that those that do want to manage space and have local content... could do so. Let advanced users or developers expand it and hack it. What kind of 3rd party hardware can be created for the new Apple TV? So far it looks like none.

I do like the new iPod Touch. Not in the market though, because I have a 3rd gen touch. iPad is tempting me, but I want all the stuff that the parent post pointed out. Won't buy until many of those are met.

So for now, the Popcorn Hour C-200 continues to make our TV viewing convenient. Software is a little clunky or slow in spots, but my grade school kids operate it fine. I won't be buying any Apple products for Christmas. Sorry Steve, you'll have to raze the old house and build the new without my financial help.

Comment Re:It's not all about video (Score 1) 595

People who only experience Flash on Windows just don't have any idea how horribly buggy it is on other platforms.

I second this experience from the perspectives of Linux, Solaris, and OSX. Also the Adobe Acrobat Reader is horrible on those platforms. Especially working behind a corporate firewall. Dang thing wants to call home to Adobe all the time. Gave up on it and just use xpdf or Foxit. Adobe kind of had a monopoly going for flash and pdf. They started adding more junk to the applications and didn't focus on reliability. Looks like the horse has left the barn for good.

I'm having a hard time getting a tear to form in my eye over Adobe's flash problems. However, (and I say this as an OSX fan) if you thought Microsoft abused their monopoly... just give Apple a chance. They'll outdo Microsoft there too.

Comment Re:Stop using the Shell (Score 1) 411

My encounters with shell script limitations are in writing pre/post installation scripts for kickstart. The busybox ash can only do so much. RedHat kickstarts provide the full python for use (since it's based on that). Mandrake kickstarts had a fairly complete core perl. Each linux distro seems to have a different scripting language that the installation is based on. One thing in common seems to be busybox. So if busybox gained a more powerful scripting shell, that would be good in my book. I'm just after fairly powerful scripting capabilities to assist in more complex fully automated (hands off) kickstarts in the corporate environment for desktops, servers, etc.

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