I would in a heartbeat. It seems that unless you work for a company large enough to get transferred to Europe, it's not really possible. I guess there are restrictions about companies hiring outside the EU unless they can prove need. Unlike the H1B sham we use in the US.
You can be a productive doctor until you're six feet under. A software engineer over 40 is considered used up by a lot of companies, and it only gets worse as you get older. Obviously not in all cases, but I hear about it a lot in the industry. When I was working in hospitals, I never heard anything similar from the staff there.
It won't really have any impact, because young people don't think they'll ever get old. Or it will be different for them.
Had a 20-something at my last job make a number of comments about some of the older developers there, saying they'd hate to still be working at that age, and that they are probably stuck doing the same work because they can't learn anything new. I don't know why he was telling me this, as I was twice his age at the time, but it's obvious that he doesn't think he'll be in the same position.
They ultimately did lay off a lot of their senior engineers and replace a lot of the position with 20-somethings, including in project management positions. A number of those projects never saw the light of day after years of re-writes into new frameworks.
if rich investors lost money. If it was your everyday peon investor, nothing will happen to her. Rich people only go to jail if they rip off other rich people.
Most of the city buses around here have bike racks on the front of the bus for just this purpose. It lets you go across town, and then lets you ride to and from some other destination. I've seen policies for this on light rail as well.
Exactly. I don't see anyone in the govt losing sleep over these revelations coming out. There is no real outrage in this country over anything. A few will be highly vocal about it, and the rest just go about their daily lives, staring at their cellphones and watching reality TV. Every individual in their country got fleeced by big banking, but there were no pitchforks over that, and there won't be for this. Only reason we really know anything about it is that we're all probably on a lot of tech sites. I'd bet money I could ask around in the coffee shop I'm in, and most would have never even heard about it.
I have zero issues with Windows 7 at home. It's been very stable for me, and I'm able to do all I need with it. I have VMWare when I need it for any other OS.
I use Linux at work exclusively, currently Mint 14 with Mate. Overall, it's a great distro, with an intuitive feel most of the time.
I guess the thing that keeps me from using Linux at home is that I'm comfortable with the collection of applications I use at home, and there are no comparable equivalents for Linux that I've seen. So much work goes into improving the Linux Desktop experience....I wish the same level of resources would go into the application base. The office suites are fairly mature, but it's just all the smaller peripheral applications I use that aren't really there. I could probably make some combination of Linux programs work, but there is zero incentive for me to break what currently works.
..a highly ingenious way to warn us about something that has close to a zero chance of happening. I guess it's like the rest of Homeland Security's efforts, just without the ingenious part.
When I bought my Macbook Pro, the first thing I did was create a Boot Camp partition, and install a fresh Windows 7 Pro on it. In the 18 months that I've had the machine, I've never once used it. I was sure there would be some Windows software I wouldn't be able to live without, but between OSX and the Linux VM I have on there, I've not needed it at all. It's just a waste of 80gb at the moment. Thankfully I got the Win7 cheap as a student.
I had 6Mbps back East. It was pretty usable, but if you're paying for 1Gbps it's an insult.
I pay for and get 60Mbps now, but it's data capped, so I'm allowed just under 15 hours of that speed a month (720 hours in a month). Every other option in my area is also data capped, but slower. This whole system is fucking bullshit.
Given that BBT is basically geek blackface, and loathed by most that I know, I wouldn't take anything said about B5 to be anything more than a semi-obscure reference the writers put on there to make the primary audience of non-geeks laugh. I'd be wiling to bet that most people that are fans of BBT have never seen a B5 episode.
I would agree with Alibre. I bought it years ago for some work a friend and I were working on. Like all 3D software, there is a heavy learning curve, and there is no free lunch here. Alibre came with around 6hrs of training videos, and of course, there is YouTube for lots of other questions that come up.
I think you'll find after reading all these posts that there is no easy way to do this, you sort of have to pick one and go with it. Alibre is very well supported, and has a pretty big following in the home machinest/hobby crowd, and their monthly news email has cool stuff that people are doing with it. I knew I didn't need a full multi-thousand dollar pro system for the cad work we were doing, but I didn't want a buggy open source solution either. Alibre was the best blend between the two I found.
I was a so-so Linux user, primarily using Windows for most of my tasks, and just sort of playing with Linux. I went to OSX for a laptop, and although didn't like it at first, and still have issues, I'm reasonably happy with it. New job though, and I'm in front of Mint Linux 100% during the day. I've found it surprisingly adept at just about everything I do for work (heavy embedded work, libre office, web, pdfs, etc)....enough so that I have a VM of it at home running 24x7 on my Windows machine, and use it quite a bit. In fact, I've scaled back the things I do on Win7 quite a bit, and with a few tweaks, think I could be happy running Mint full-time. It runs well enough as a VM that I'm inclined not to mess with it. I don't think I'd gain much from having it native, except the endless stream of background Windows updating that's always going on. I can't slam Win7 that bad though. It is rare as hell for me to need to reboot the machine, maybe once this year so far.
I don't see any point in trying to enforce something like this. What I would like to see would be a "Bullshit Inside" badge attached to a game that meant it had any of those things. Then I could choose to spend money or not. We had to put stickers on music that had a naughty word in them, and we have ratings on games for every other type of potentially offensive content. Doesn't seem like a stretch to blatantly mark something as DRM enforced, or additional money required.
You want to see a drastic change in the user interface for the worse, take a look at the latest Microsoft Visual Studio. Totally flat looking, devoid of color. It's almost unusable in the sense that I have to spend time visually hunting for things on the screen all the time. There are no real patterns for my eyes to lock on to. Complete fail.
It's exactly the same in all the pre-med classes I took. The instructors had to go to great lengths to separate the Indian students on test days. There were numerous cases of where Indian students in one class of a professors would steal the exam during a test, and give it to students in a later class. The professors had a huge burden of extra work to come up with different exams for each individual class. The Indian students didn't seem to care or protest one bit about being singled out for cheating, as it just seemed part of the game to them.
...protecting ourselves from extremely rare occurrences that affect a very small percentage of the population as a whole, but that isn't how we do things in the US unfortunately.
I still wouldn't be able to participate in something like this because of the data caps my monopolistic cable provider has. It's one thing for me to pay for my own monthly usage, but having my limit sucked dry in a few days and either paying a great deal for the overages or having my service cut off goes beyond my willingness to help out.
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I would in a heartbeat. It seems that unless you work for a company large enough to get transferred to Europe, it's not really possible. I guess there are restrictions about companies hiring outside the EU unless they can prove need. Unlike the H1B sham we use in the US.
You can be a productive doctor until you're six feet under. A software engineer over 40 is considered used up by a lot of companies, and it only gets worse as you get older. Obviously not in all cases, but I hear about it a lot in the industry. When I was working in hospitals, I never heard anything similar from the staff there.
They could, but they won't; because YT makes tons of money on them.
Agreed. I drove across Oregon a few months ago and had zero T-Mobile coverage across a good chunk of the state. Spotty in Northern California as well.
It won't really have any impact, because young people don't think they'll ever get old. Or it will be different for them.
Had a 20-something at my last job make a number of comments about some of the older developers there, saying they'd hate to still be working at that age, and that they are probably stuck doing the same work because they can't learn anything new. I don't know why he was telling me this, as I was twice his age at the time, but it's obvious that he doesn't think he'll be in the same position.
They ultimately did lay off a lot of their senior engineers and replace a lot of the position with 20-somethings, including in project management positions. A number of those projects never saw the light of day after years of re-writes into new frameworks.
if rich investors lost money. If it was your everyday peon investor, nothing will happen to her. Rich people only go to jail if they rip off other rich people.
Relevant Onion: https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-televisi-1819565469
Bring back the "lunchbox" computers. My old Compaq was awesome. Could even add a few ISA cards for added funtionality.
...and I wish it was something different. Brings back a lot of memories of this site back in the day. RIP Rob.
Most of the city buses around here have bike racks on the front of the bus for just this purpose. It lets you go across town, and then lets you ride to and from some other destination. I've seen policies for this on light rail as well.
Exactly. I don't see anyone in the govt losing sleep over these revelations coming out. There is no real outrage in this country over anything. A few will be highly vocal about it, and the rest just go about their daily lives, staring at their cellphones and watching reality TV. Every individual in their country got fleeced by big banking, but there were no pitchforks over that, and there won't be for this. Only reason we really know anything about it is that we're all probably on a lot of tech sites. I'd bet money I could ask around in the coffee shop I'm in, and most would have never even heard about it.
I have zero issues with Windows 7 at home. It's been very stable for me, and I'm able to do all I need with it. I have VMWare when I need it for any other OS.
I use Linux at work exclusively, currently Mint 14 with Mate. Overall, it's a great distro, with an intuitive feel most of the time.
I guess the thing that keeps me from using Linux at home is that I'm comfortable with the collection of applications I use at home, and there are no comparable equivalents for Linux that I've seen. So much work goes into improving the Linux Desktop experience....I wish the same level of resources would go into the application base. The office suites are fairly mature, but it's just all the smaller peripheral applications I use that aren't really there. I could probably make some combination of Linux programs work, but there is zero incentive for me to break what currently works.
..a highly ingenious way to warn us about something that has close to a zero chance of happening. I guess it's like the rest of Homeland Security's efforts, just without the ingenious part.
When I bought my Macbook Pro, the first thing I did was create a Boot Camp partition, and install a fresh Windows 7 Pro on it. In the 18 months that I've had the machine, I've never once used it. I was sure there would be some Windows software I wouldn't be able to live without, but between OSX and the Linux VM I have on there, I've not needed it at all. It's just a waste of 80gb at the moment. Thankfully I got the Win7 cheap as a student.
I had 6Mbps back East. It was pretty usable, but if you're paying for 1Gbps it's an insult.
I pay for and get 60Mbps now, but it's data capped, so I'm allowed just under 15 hours of that speed a month (720 hours in a month). Every other option in my area is also data capped, but slower. This whole system is fucking bullshit.
1Gbps speed for the first 2GB, then $10 per GB after. Or maybe they'll just throttle you down to 6Mbps for the rest of the month.
Given that BBT is basically geek blackface, and loathed by most that I know, I wouldn't take anything said about B5 to be anything more than a semi-obscure reference the writers put on there to make the primary audience of non-geeks laugh. I'd be wiling to bet that most people that are fans of BBT have never seen a B5 episode.
I would agree with Alibre. I bought it years ago for some work a friend and I were working on. Like all 3D software, there is a heavy learning curve, and there is no free lunch here. Alibre came with around 6hrs of training videos, and of course, there is YouTube for lots of other questions that come up.
I think you'll find after reading all these posts that there is no easy way to do this, you sort of have to pick one and go with it. Alibre is very well supported, and has a pretty big following in the home machinest/hobby crowd, and their monthly news email has cool stuff that people are doing with it. I knew I didn't need a full multi-thousand dollar pro system for the cad work we were doing, but I didn't want a buggy open source solution either. Alibre was the best blend between the two I found.
I was a so-so Linux user, primarily using Windows for most of my tasks, and just sort of playing with Linux. I went to OSX for a laptop, and although didn't like it at first, and still have issues, I'm reasonably happy with it. New job though, and I'm in front of Mint Linux 100% during the day. I've found it surprisingly adept at just about everything I do for work (heavy embedded work, libre office, web, pdfs, etc)....enough so that I have a VM of it at home running 24x7 on my Windows machine, and use it quite a bit. In fact, I've scaled back the things I do on Win7 quite a bit, and with a few tweaks, think I could be happy running Mint full-time. It runs well enough as a VM that I'm inclined not to mess with it. I don't think I'd gain much from having it native, except the endless stream of background Windows updating that's always going on. I can't slam Win7 that bad though. It is rare as hell for me to need to reboot the machine, maybe once this year so far.
I don't see any point in trying to enforce something like this. What I would like to see would be a "Bullshit Inside" badge attached to a game that meant it had any of those things. Then I could choose to spend money or not. We had to put stickers on music that had a naughty word in them, and we have ratings on games for every other type of potentially offensive content. Doesn't seem like a stretch to blatantly mark something as DRM enforced, or additional money required.
You want to see a drastic change in the user interface for the worse, take a look at the latest Microsoft Visual Studio. Totally flat looking, devoid of color. It's almost unusable in the sense that I have to spend time visually hunting for things on the screen all the time. There are no real patterns for my eyes to lock on to. Complete fail.
I'm also trying to figure out the point to this.
It's exactly the same in all the pre-med classes I took. The instructors had to go to great lengths to separate the Indian students on test days. There were numerous cases of where Indian students in one class of a professors would steal the exam during a test, and give it to students in a later class. The professors had a huge burden of extra work to come up with different exams for each individual class. The Indian students didn't seem to care or protest one bit about being singled out for cheating, as it just seemed part of the game to them.
...protecting ourselves from extremely rare occurrences that affect a very small percentage of the population as a whole, but that isn't how we do things in the US unfortunately.
I still wouldn't be able to participate in something like this because of the data caps my monopolistic cable provider has. It's one thing for me to pay for my own monthly usage, but having my limit sucked dry in a few days and either paying a great deal for the overages or having my service cut off goes beyond my willingness to help out.