Controversial posts made by scottalanmiller

Basically the nature of advice is that you only get it for technical things. Basically everything that we buy is technical or purely aesthetic.

@Jason said in Hours I work/PTO:

@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:

Internet is more important than roads, right? but no one is arguing that the government should make people tarmac the area in front of their drivesways, right? Why treat the Internet differently?

Um No, it's not. Some of you on here have a very skewed view of the world.

Why are roads important? To get "stuff" shipped to you? Internet is important because it is how we communicate. How do you have a functional democracy in this day and age when all of the information is online and online alone? Cut someone off from the Internet and they leave society. Cut someone's road off, and they just stop buying unneeded crap.

I've seen it a lot in the audiophile community. Anything with lots of advertising is generally the worst products. But lots of VARs push them because they are easier to sell and have higher mark up. You rarely "pay" for audio advice, but if you do, you generally expect to get insider knowledge, not just ads regurgitated.

@tonyshowoff said in What is New Earth:

@RojoLoco said in What is New Earth:

I've always practiced a policy of "never discuss science with those who subscribe to any religion". This has saved me immeasurable time over the years.

I've known plenty of atheists with piss poor understanding of science. Of course, if one's religion clouds their ability to reason it doesn't really matter, but you can find a lot of die hard conspiracy theorists and flat earthers who are atheists too. There's one famous flat earth guy, I think his film is called "under the dome", anyway he thinks it's aliens, not God which put us in this dome.

Many of those that are religious would argue that atheism must be a religion as it requires faith. Agnosticism has a strong argument for the potential to be religion free. But just as believing in a higher being requires faith, believing there is not one transfers that faith to the universe in such a way that it becomes religious.

@stacksofplates said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

Right, typical businesses will do things poorly. So assume that typical businesses will always be bad. So don't be typical if you are trying to do well.

And using this statement, Fortune 100's are not typical. Mose use Cisco gear, so by that logic you should use Cisco.

Do they use Cisco gear "more" than non-Fortune 100s? I think not. You'll find more alternatives in the Fortune 100 than elsewhere. It's actually an incredible diverse field. And mimicking anyone is not suggested by being wary of what the group think is. You are making disconnected leaps from what I said. One does not lead to the other.

@BRRABill said:

That's my take here.

Is QB really THAT BAD? Or rather THAT DAMAGING to business profit?

Is it damaging and bad? Then it is bad enough. How bad do you need it to be before it's a concern? Why isn't the fact that it is bad not all that it takes?

Why would we ever worry about something being "that bad"? We need to look for good solutions, best options. Not try to see what we can not bother fixing. Sure, in triage, we have to decide where to focus efforts. But we should strive for "good" for the sake of itself.

@stacksofplates said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

That's one of the most ridiculous things I've heard. You could make the exact same argument about Chevy. Cisco markets because they want people to buy their stuff.

Chevy advertises to its buyers. Cisco advertises to the people that oversee the buyers.

One is trying to influence the "expert". The other is trying to undermine the "expert". Very different.

@art_of_shred said:

The fact that you assess it completely from the other side shows a "how it looks from the IT side" perspective.

What IT perspective am I bringing at all? It's purely a business discussion. It's only because we are talking about an application that the aspect of the business happens to be IT. But the ideas of functionality, risk, cost, profit, efficiency are purely business ones and not IT ones.

@stacksofplates said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

I did... marketing. If they've heard of it, they should be wary of it. I'm just repeating myself here.

That's obviously not true. Somehow some companies that market are exempt but not others.

Why?

@art_of_shred said:

Right, and that's why everyday we see news about companies whose shareholders are suing the CEO because the IT guy "allowed" the business to burn their profits by using QB...

No successful company runs QB, not a real concern.

This is what I said to my wife and she said that it was so obvious that she wasn't sure how I could make it more clear....

If someone is giving you advice (that you pay for) and that advice reflects things that you feel seem reasonable partially because you have seen that product or idea in an ad or commercial that you should be wary of the advice because the advisor may be leveraging the fact that you have seen that marketing to influence you into accepting that advice.

I read the above to her and she said that it makes sense.

It keeps getting asked and I think it has been stated over and over but just in case it was missed, here it is again:

Quickbooks is bad because it lacks upsides while bringing huge caveats both financial and technical.

We can dive into the details of these, but that is definitely higher up in the thread. But the high level is that QB is a problem because it hurts businesses by wasting money, increasing support cost, being inefficient and putting the business at risk. It is all negatives, all caveats. In what way can you implement QB to the benefit of a business?

Somehow we are missing each other. I feel like I'm being condescendingly obvious and you feel like I am being obtuse. Which part of "if you have heard of it" you should watch out is complex? Let me explain it in audio to my wife and see what I say when describing it.

@Minion-Queen said:

Trying to figure out why a fax line stopped working at a clients... PBX work my favorite.

Is anything else broken or is it just the fax, ma'am?

@stacksofplates said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

@scottalanmiller said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

@stacksofplates said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

@scottalanmiller said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

If someone presents you with a recommendation that is so obviously a copy of what general marketing or bad practice suggests you would get when getting screwed,

This is what I'm talking about. These people don't know what bad practice is or what general marketing is. You still haven't supplied how these people are supposed to find what bad practices are.

Everyone knows what general marketing is. Everyone. Even little kids.

No they don't. And you still haven't showed how these people are supposed to find what bad practices are.

I did... marketing. If they've heard of it, they should be wary of it. I'm just repeating myself here.

Why does SAN sound reasonable to non-technical people? Marketing. Why do non-technical people know CIsco? Marketing.

Not sure but it is the highest end one available for the MBP. It's the nVidia discrete model.

@stacksofplates said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

@scottalanmiller said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

If someone presents you with a recommendation that is so obviously a copy of what general marketing or bad practice suggests you would get when getting screwed,

This is what I'm talking about. These people don't know what bad practice is or what general marketing is. You still haven't supplied how these people are supposed to find what bad practices are.

I feel like you are suggesting that business people who own companies don't know what a magzine ad is or something like that. I'll accept that if you feel business people are that dumb and clueless that absolutely nothing will save them.

But I'm giving advice to people who can breath on their own here, not people who aren't sure which is the television show and which is the commercial. You can theorize that there are people that stupid out there, but even if they exist that doesn't mean that we should stop giving good advice just because there is someone that won't or can't take it.

Oh my.... the joke possibilities just really opened up.

@stacksofplates said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

@scottalanmiller said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

If someone presents you with a recommendation that is so obviously a copy of what general marketing or bad practice suggests you would get when getting screwed,

This is what I'm talking about. These people don't know what bad practice is or what general marketing is. You still haven't supplied how these people are supposed to find what bad practices are.

Everyone knows what general marketing is. Everyone. Even little kids.

@thecreativeone91 said:

No, it wasn't. You are seeing things the way you want to not, what they ACTUALLY say.

I provided the quote.