I run a weekend cabin rental business on the side and at least once a month I get a renter who pushed the wrong button on the TV or DVD remote that screws up everything and I have to go help them figure out how to get it back to a state where they can watch a DVD.
At the very least put a "Reset" button that can be programmed to put everything back to a particular state with one touch.
Exactly. My father was a big jogger in the 1970's and 1980's. He ran 5 to 10 miles almost every day.
Around age 68 he had to get a knee replaced. At 73 he had the other knee replaced. The doctors told him that pretty much anyone who jogged that much has to get new knees. Now he still has trouble walking long distances, which sucks for him since he lives in the mountains and loves to hike.
My father has advised me against jogging more than a couple miles twice a week.
When I worked on a project with DARPA our project leader was always talking about the missle system he helped develop with DARPA. So DARPA is not completely innocent.
I swear you could just go back to the old school spy tradecraft (dead drops, one time code pads, etc.) and keep your illegal organization out of the eyes of the law as long as you weren't stupid and kept all confidential communications offline. I'll bet not more than 5% of law enforcement agency personnel even know what they used to do.
It's how I run my terroist organization these days, and the terror business is good.
Yeah, it ain't dead, but verizon doesn't want to support it. Our copper line kept deteriorating in quality and after repeated complaints Verizon hired some guy (seriously, a guy with a ditch-witch and a roll of cable) to lay a new line down the road to my house. He did a shitty job and didn't mark the line, so it got dug up or broken several times by neighbors in under a year.
So we invested about $1200 into a cell booster, antenna and tower. Now we get good cell reception and told Verizon to stuff it.
Still can't get broadband other than via the cell phone. And that's expensive. Even the "unlimited" plans only come with a few Gb of 4G, then it drops to Edge.
Can confirm. I have a business degree from a major university. Two years after I got my degree I took a couple coding and networking courses at a community college.
Now I make a good living ($100K+) as a programmer/DBA from my two semesters of community college courses. I haven't done jack with my 4 year degree.
So anyone who wants to be a programmer can get a good boost from community college IF it's a GOOD community college. My profs were all old-time NASA programmers. They knew their stuff.
Your posts insults my belief in free speech. I am warning you that you will be harmed if you continue to say things like this. You have been warned. Do not ever say anything like this again or harm wil come to you.
Because brilliant geniuses like yourself remember how awesome it was back before things like the EPA and the Clean Air and Water acts?
Junior, some of us were alive in the 1960's and 1970's. We remember how well the "invisible hand" of the market didn't do shit to stop rampant pollution. We remember not being able to swim or fish in the rivers, lakes and bays we can now swim and fish in comfortably.
Go swim in some toxic sewage this weekend. Then get used to that feeling if the EPA is defunded.
I work in a facotry and we still run Windows NT 4 on a couple hundred machines. Because the equipment interface for the tools these machines control requires it. The tool manufacturer isn't going to invest money in upgrading 20 year old equipment, they want us to buy new tools. As does every vendor we deal with in any kind of tool support role.
At $2M per replacement tool, even if we only need 1/4 as many new tools due to throughput inprovements on the new platform, we'd have to spend over $100M to acheive what we do now.
so I get to keep supporting NT4.
Don't ask about the win98 controlled tools. Or the half-dozen DOS tools that have to connect to the network. It's like I live in medievel times.
Too many of us have "gone to the backup tapes" and found them to be corrupted.
I'm not saying "don't use tape" but I've been burned too many times with only having tape backups (and these were expensive enterprise systems) in the past. If you use tape, also use something else. Belt & suspenders.
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Holy cats, yes.
I run a weekend cabin rental business on the side and at least once a month I get a renter who pushed the wrong button on the TV or DVD remote that screws up everything and I have to go help them figure out how to get it back to a state where they can watch a DVD.
At the very least put a "Reset" button that can be programmed to put everything back to a particular state with one touch.
They can probably ship them. Texas has a pretty long coastline and some huge ports.
You may want to use a landlocked state for your comparison.
I have heard that shoes are the main culprit as well.
I wonder if anyone has studied the knees of Tarahumara people? They run insane amounts and rarely wear shoes.
I have yet to talk to a doctor that didn't believe that excessive running damages knees.
That's why it's called "excessive."
Exactly. My father was a big jogger in the 1970's and 1980's. He ran 5 to 10 miles almost every day.
Around age 68 he had to get a knee replaced. At 73 he had the other knee replaced. The doctors told him that pretty much anyone who jogged that much has to get new knees. Now he still has trouble walking long distances, which sucks for him since he lives in the mountains and loves to hike.
My father has advised me against jogging more than a couple miles twice a week.
But they did go Blind in Texas.
When I worked on a project with DARPA our project leader was always talking about the missle system he helped develop with DARPA. So DARPA is not completely innocent.
Yeah, I wondered the same things. They have to have some competent programmers there. Hell, most of us would do it for the right price.
I swear you could just go back to the old school spy tradecraft (dead drops, one time code pads, etc.) and keep your illegal organization out of the eyes of the law as long as you weren't stupid and kept all confidential communications offline. I'll bet not more than 5% of law enforcement agency personnel even know what they used to do.
It's how I run my terroist organization these days, and the terror business is good.
Yeah, it ain't dead, but verizon doesn't want to support it. Our copper line kept deteriorating in quality and after repeated complaints Verizon hired some guy (seriously, a guy with a ditch-witch and a roll of cable) to lay a new line down the road to my house. He did a shitty job and didn't mark the line, so it got dug up or broken several times by neighbors in under a year.
So we invested about $1200 into a cell booster, antenna and tower. Now we get good cell reception and told Verizon to stuff it.
Still can't get broadband other than via the cell phone. And that's expensive. Even the "unlimited" plans only come with a few Gb of 4G, then it drops to Edge.
Now he's being followed by three moon shadows.
How could anyone work in a place like Disney without being heavily drugged?
Perhaps with a diverse team there is less shared extracurricular interest to chat about, so meetings tend to be more focused on the subject at hand.
Just a theory, not even a really good one.
Hire another local programmer at 110% of the fired employee's salary to fix the cheap H1B programmer's code = 60% loss.
Can confirm. I have a business degree from a major university.
Two years after I got my degree I took a couple coding and networking courses at a community college.
Now I make a good living ($100K+) as a programmer/DBA from my two semesters of community college courses. I haven't done jack with my 4 year degree.
So anyone who wants to be a programmer can get a good boost from community college IF it's a GOOD community college. My profs were all old-time NASA programmers. They knew their stuff.
It also makes really cool fake snow.
Pork, is there anything it can't do?
Your posts insults my belief in free speech. I am warning you that you will be harmed if you continue to say things like this. You have been warned. Do not ever say anything like this again or harm wil come to you.
See how it works?
Because brilliant geniuses like yourself remember how awesome it was back before things like the EPA and the Clean Air and Water acts?
Junior, some of us were alive in the 1960's and 1970's. We remember how well the "invisible hand" of the market didn't do shit to stop rampant pollution. We remember not being able to swim or fish in the rivers, lakes and bays we can now swim and fish in comfortably.
Go swim in some toxic sewage this weekend. Then get used to that feeling if the EPA is defunded.
True fact: The first utterance of "Motherfucker!" came shortly after the invention of the hammer.
But we did have Bow Wow Wow.
Which had that hot welsh/burmese chick
And you know, to not use wireless keyboards in any environment that could be compromised.
I work in a facotry and we still run Windows NT 4 on a couple hundred machines. Because the equipment interface for the tools these machines control requires it.
The tool manufacturer isn't going to invest money in upgrading 20 year old equipment, they want us to buy new tools.
As does every vendor we deal with in any kind of tool support role.
At $2M per replacement tool, even if we only need 1/4 as many new tools due to throughput inprovements on the new platform, we'd have to spend over $100M to acheive what we do now.
so I get to keep supporting NT4.
Don't ask about the win98 controlled tools. Or the half-dozen DOS tools that have to connect to the network. It's like I live in medievel times.
And few will remember how secret communications used to be done before the days of the Internet.
But for those who do, the world will be their oyster.
Too many of us have "gone to the backup tapes" and found them to be corrupted.
I'm not saying "don't use tape" but I've been burned too many times with only having tape backups (and these were expensive enterprise systems) in the past. If you use tape, also use something else. Belt & suspenders.