The brain must be boosted after writing neat code. Because months or years later I often forget the slick solution I came up with, and I'm totally confused when I look at the code again. Then the little light comes on when I figure out what I did and I think "Gee, I was pretty clever!"
I can't get TV (even cable) where I live, and my bandwidth sucks, so we just use Netflix and purchased DVDs.
Usually the wife or I will hear about a show from a friend or the internets then we get the first season from Netflix. If we like it, we buy the whole series on DVD and watch as we please, when we feel like it. No commercials and much easier than depending on the networks.
I would imagine sending random e-mails to men in say, Utah, demanding a nominal sum for viewing porn on their website would produce an astounding amount of free money, especially if you "guaranteed" secrecy and rights to view upon payment. Most would just pay up rather than have their wives possibly find out about their viewing of porn.
I wouldn't be surprised if this has been done many, many times already. Using people's religion against them can be profitable.
Whereas most of us sensible folk watch porn WITH our wives, so we couldn't give a crap who knows we watch it.
Not to mention the hellishly expensive wafer handling equipment. It's already difficult to carry a boat of 300mm wafers, larger wafers (and containers) are even heavier. More clean space is required, more robotics, larger machines, more power! A 300mm fab is astoundingly expensive, a 400mm fab will only be available to the really, really big players. Contract fabs will be the norm for all but a few, in fact they are pretty much already the norm.
And the probe cards used for testing these wafers get bigger. Full wafer test 300MM cards are too heavy for our techs to easily carry and set up so we have mini-forklifts to move these things around. It takes two or three people to level and planarize them.
So where you used to hire a couple cleanroom techs to easily carry boats of wafers from process A to process B, you now have to buy robots and track systems...which need expensive maintenance engineers, more intricate fab design, etc. People forget how size gets expensive sometimes.
I work for #LARGE CORPORATION# that doesn't want bandwidth eaten up by streaming. Hence, most streaming is blocked. Work is where I have the most time to listen to music.
I suspect a lot of other employed people have this situation. And since employed people are generally the target market for ads or they are the ones who pay for streaming services, that cuts down on a huge revenue source.
And like many, I hate most of the usual mainstream pap, so I find and download interesting new (and old) stuff. I'm not a hipster, I'm just old and cranky. Most lesser-known bands happily give away their music(so you'll come to their shows) or they sell CDs/MP3s cheaply. Result: NAS full of music at work for everyone in the dept.
When I hit 45 I put my plan in motion to retire by 55. Now, 5 years later, the plan is going well and I should be out in another 5. So why quit?
1) Everyone says tech is a young mans game. Bullshit, but the hiring managers believe it, so opportunities after 55 are few. 2) It has all become corporate. The suits used to leave us alone and if you knew what you were doing you were well rewarded and taken care of. Now we sweat out the next layoff every year because the suits think a grad fresh out of college can replace your 25 years of experience at 1/3 the cost. Or company lost several million a few years ago because they laid off the old guy who knew EVERYTHING. We blew an enormous order from a huge customer because that old guy wasn't here to show us how to do it right. 3) I want to enjoy life while still young. Sitting in front of a computer all day 5 days a week is not what life should be, even if it does pay well. 4) I want to get my ass out of the way and let the kids out of college have a damn job.
Actually, my company makes flash memory and we ship most of it overseas for final packaging. We have to allow for a certain amount of die loss from cosmic rays striking the wafers while they are in flight.
I used to hang out with a woman who was a police dispatcher in a fairly major city. She had to know where the cops were at all times so she could call the closest one to any incident that may occur.
She said she did not know of one cop in town that wasn't banging a stripper or a hooker on the side. Most strippers and call girls will have "their" cop who would watch their back and look the other way for a little quid pro quo.
So yeah, having the fact that they park in back of the local "gentleman's" club for a half hour twice a week as public record might cause them some concern.
Manufacturing large quantities efficiently also takes a LOT of time and money. First you need someone to front you $XXX millions (or $X billions) for a factory unless you can shoehorn it into a pre-existing industrial process. Then it may only take $XX millions.
I was the execs personal IT support (not my job, but hey) in the last company I worked for. One day the CEO brought his "wife's" laptop for me to fix because it was really slow.
I had never seen so much and so varied porn on one persons computer before. I learned so much back then...
Back in the late 80's I took an entire week-long prepaid vacation (4 flights, 2 hotels & rental car) to Hawaii under someone else's name. It was my sister's boyfriend and he backed out of the trip at the last minute because of work. Sis called me up Thursday and said "You want a free trip with me to Hawaii tomorrow?" Hell yes, even if it was with my big sister.
The funny part is her boyfriend at the time had a very difficult, very long, very Polish name that I never did learn to spell right. And inevitably every desk clerk would ask how to spell it. I kept a card in my pocket with the name in big, bold letters that I would show them. But I boarded every plane and got every hotel & car reservation without showing even one form of ID.
Yeah, can I sue anyone who downvotes me now, or everyone who doesn't upvote me? Or everyone who doesn't downvote a negative comment about me? Or anyone who upvotes a negative comment about me?
Man, I'm moving to Estonia. Because not only will I get rich by suing commenters, a country with a name like that must have free drugs everywhere.
I mean, it's great to have gesture controls and smartphone integration, I guess, but please give it some nice controls and a display. If I have to have a smartphone to control the damn things then: a) I have to have a smartphone on me or near me at all times at HOME. b) What the f*$k do I do when I leave my smartphone in the car, at the office, somewhere in the garage, etc?
Some dorkwad tried to sell me on a thermostat that was ONLY controllable via smartphone last year. "No one but you can change the a/c!" was his selling point. Great, when I'm on a business trip and a heat wave hits I'm supposed to let the family suffer?
And do I call home when the text-only smoke alarm alerts me about a fire so I can tell the wife to get out? Sometimes a screeching alarm is the only way to keep my stepdaughter from attempting cooking, you know.
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I'm glad you said this because it is what I believe.
The brain must be boosted after writing neat code. Because months or years later I often forget the slick solution I came up with, and I'm totally confused when I look at the code again. Then the little light comes on when I figure out what I did and I think "Gee, I was pretty clever!"
I can't get TV (even cable) where I live, and my bandwidth sucks, so we just use Netflix and purchased DVDs.
Usually the wife or I will hear about a show from a friend or the internets then we get the first season from Netflix. If we like it, we buy the whole series on DVD and watch as we please, when we feel like it. No commercials and much easier than depending on the networks.
I would imagine sending random e-mails to men in say, Utah, demanding a nominal sum for viewing porn on their website would produce an astounding amount of free money, especially if you "guaranteed" secrecy and rights to view upon payment. Most would just pay up rather than have their wives possibly find out about their viewing of porn.
I wouldn't be surprised if this has been done many, many times already. Using people's religion against them can be profitable.
Whereas most of us sensible folk watch porn WITH our wives, so we couldn't give a crap who knows we watch it.
In those cases we all just rely on our porn memories.
Not to mention the hellishly expensive wafer handling equipment. It's already difficult to carry a boat of 300mm wafers, larger wafers (and containers) are even heavier. More clean space is required, more robotics, larger machines, more power! A 300mm fab is astoundingly expensive, a 400mm fab will only be available to the really, really big players. Contract fabs will be the norm for all but a few, in fact they are pretty much already the norm.
And the probe cards used for testing these wafers get bigger. Full wafer test 300MM cards are too heavy for our techs to easily carry and set up so we have mini-forklifts to move these things around. It takes two or three people to level and planarize them.
So where you used to hire a couple cleanroom techs to easily carry boats of wafers from process A to process B, you now have to buy robots and track systems...which need expensive maintenance engineers, more intricate fab design, etc. People forget how size gets expensive sometimes.
I work for #LARGE CORPORATION# that doesn't want bandwidth eaten up by streaming. Hence, most streaming is blocked. Work is where I have the most time to listen to music.
I suspect a lot of other employed people have this situation. And since employed people are generally the target market for ads or they are the ones who pay for streaming services, that cuts down on a huge revenue source.
And like many, I hate most of the usual mainstream pap, so I find and download interesting new (and old) stuff. I'm not a hipster, I'm just old and cranky. Most lesser-known bands happily give away their music(so you'll come to their shows) or they sell CDs/MP3s cheaply. Result: NAS full of music at work for everyone in the dept.
Don't you remember when terrorists took over a courthouse and crashed it into the daycare full of innocent American children?
Do you want that to happen again?
When I hit 45 I put my plan in motion to retire by 55. Now, 5 years later, the plan is going well and I should be out in another 5. So why quit?
1) Everyone says tech is a young mans game. Bullshit, but the hiring managers believe it, so opportunities after 55 are few.
2) It has all become corporate. The suits used to leave us alone and if you knew what you were doing you were well rewarded and taken care of. Now we sweat out the next layoff every year because the suits think a grad fresh out of college can replace your 25 years of experience at 1/3 the cost. Or company lost several million a few years ago because they laid off the old guy who knew EVERYTHING. We blew an enormous order from a huge customer because that old guy wasn't here to show us how to do it right.
3) I want to enjoy life while still young. Sitting in front of a computer all day 5 days a week is not what life should be, even if it does pay well.
4) I want to get my ass out of the way and let the kids out of college have a damn job.
And Boron is cheap, ~$400/ton.
Now I want a ton of boron delivered to me for some reason.
Easier: Just put the rackmount UPS at the top of your rack. It's mostly lead.
Actually, my company makes flash memory and we ship most of it overseas for final packaging. We have to allow for a certain amount of die loss from cosmic rays striking the wafers while they are in flight.
Exactly. If you don't want to haggle, don't haggle, just pay more. The whole "no haggle" pricing BS means "we're screwing you as hard as we can."
Especially in a business that can be almost completely replicated by a decent programmer and a RackSpace account.
I used to hang out with a woman who was a police dispatcher in a fairly major city. She had to know where the cops were at all times so she could call the closest one to any incident that may occur.
She said she did not know of one cop in town that wasn't banging a stripper or a hooker on the side. Most strippers and call girls will have "their" cop who would watch their back and look the other way for a little quid pro quo.
So yeah, having the fact that they park in back of the local "gentleman's" club for a half hour twice a week as public record might cause them some concern.
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Manufacturing large quantities efficiently also takes a LOT of time and money. First you need someone to front you $XXX millions (or $X billions) for a factory unless you can shoehorn it into a pre-existing industrial process. Then it may only take $XX millions.
I was the execs personal IT support (not my job, but hey) in the last company I worked for.
One day the CEO brought his "wife's" laptop for me to fix because it was really slow.
I had never seen so much and so varied porn on one persons computer before. I learned so much back then...
Talk to a lawyer that specializes in auto fires. You will never park your car in an attached garage again.
I had a vehicle catch fire and burn up after just sitting idle for three days.
So, my idea of doing a capcha of "Find the tranny" has not been taken yet. Sweet.
Back in the late 80's I took an entire week-long prepaid vacation (4 flights, 2 hotels & rental car) to Hawaii under someone else's name. It was my sister's boyfriend and he backed out of the trip at the last minute because of work. Sis called me up Thursday and said "You want a free trip with me to Hawaii tomorrow?" Hell yes, even if it was with my big sister.
The funny part is her boyfriend at the time had a very difficult, very long, very Polish name that I never did learn to spell right. And inevitably every desk clerk would ask how to spell it. I kept a card in my pocket with the name in big, bold letters that I would show them. But I boarded every plane and got every hotel & car reservation without showing even one form of ID.
Psychiatrists prescribe medicine, not psychologists.
I guess you've never played "Hi Bob!" then.
Yeah, can I sue anyone who downvotes me now, or everyone who doesn't upvote me? Or everyone who doesn't downvote a negative comment about me? Or anyone who upvotes a negative comment about me?
Man, I'm moving to Estonia. Because not only will I get rich by suing commenters, a country with a name like that must have free drugs everywhere.
I mean, it's great to have gesture controls and smartphone integration, I guess, but please give it some nice controls and a display. If I have to have a smartphone to control the damn things then:
a) I have to have a smartphone on me or near me at all times at HOME.
b) What the f*$k do I do when I leave my smartphone in the car, at the office, somewhere in the garage, etc?
Some dorkwad tried to sell me on a thermostat that was ONLY controllable via smartphone last year. "No one but you can change the a/c!" was his selling point. Great, when I'm on a business trip and a heat wave hits I'm supposed to let the family suffer?
And do I call home when the text-only smoke alarm alerts me about a fire so I can tell the wife to get out? Sometimes a screeching alarm is the only way to keep my stepdaughter from attempting cooking, you know.