...and inflicting mouse-driven GUI lunacy on corporations. In all cases, it seemed employees "could do more," but really they "had to do more" because of the new technology. There was the birth of incessant goofing off with solitaire, personal email, social media, ebay, etc. Then companies had to install all kinds of complicated stuff to block, monitor, and mitigate their companies screwing off with their tech. I road the "it must be better because you told me so" $ train for years selling that crap.
I'm not anti-tech to the point of living in a cabin and abusing postal mail, but I do think for many, many purposes, a terminal-based application running off a dedicated host (or cluster of hosts) provides a company with a far more efficient, both in direct & indirect costs, system to accomplish a business goal than all these multi-purpose general-purpose GUI desktop OS's.
Example: I have one customer that had a UNIX terminal and hand scanner system to manage a large network of warehouses and light manufacturing at various geographical locations. They (the accounts and executives) decided the yearly maintenance costs of the UNIX application vendor were too high, so they were going to modernize it. They ended up buying a farm of Windows servers and Windows desktops everywhere (with all the obligatory firewalls, AV, employee monitoring stuff they needed to make their employees actually use the stuff for work) and spent enough money (up front, not planned ongoing costs) to fund 10 years worth of the original UNIX application vendor's maintenance fees.
Worst part: under UNIX terminal system they used hand and forklift scanners with telnet to scan inventory and logistics moves. These cost at most $1000 in the highest complexity scenario; usually about $750 in routine cases. With the new system, every mobile production location needed $6000 Windows hand-held terminals so they could RDP into the fancy smancy Windows terminal farm, all so they could scan 2-D bar codes on supplies and inventory as it moved around the organization. Lunacy.
Wrong, fire this person, everyone involved in any aspect of the operation of the test, and especially the people that created it in the first place without at least 2-person agreement before sending the mass alert. Fire them all. People in our gov't, especially associated with emergency operations must be held to the highest level of excellence and brutally punished when they fail. Let them go get some civilian job and fuck up there. We got 300M+ citizens; someone else can surely do better.
As a gamer, I hope their eventual probation or parole involves every gamer they come in contact with teamkilling them mercilessly and twich'ing every single instance.
and due to my extremely (I just bought that word) limited intelligence (they threw in that one as a BoGo), I was tricked into clicking it. I'm off to craft a new protest sign.
Define datacenter. My server room in my basement? My server room in my corporation? My server building at my hosting company? All of them have some form of local on-site office with people and workstations.
This is probably the biggest crock of shit since I don't know when. Sheer lunacy.
This article is laughable. Large companies are constantly, every single day, laying off employees somewhere, someplace. And if they are a growing company, as most successful companies are, they actually add more employees than they lay off. AT&T has 273,000 employees total and laying off 600+700+215 equates to 0.55% of their total workforce and no where near any definition of a "large number" of employees.
Cry me a River, snowflakes.
Any which way you measure it, the US economy is booming and every one of us willing to work is benefiting.
These terms from your post are euphemisms for discussing "old people" in an oblique manner:
older alternative unwilling to learn comfort zone
I don't want to go back and forth or get into insulting replies because I'm going to assume you're reasonable. Whether you realize it or not your OP is completely based on age discrimination.
Nope, not gonna use something based on a community so committed to intolerance, dox'ing, and persecution. I see how so many of the comments here are AC. You all are soo scared of the Rust moderators. Hopefully one of you escapes and makes a de-programming and recovery group. Might even get a TV show.
^And there is the intolerance we're talking about. Nothing in our posts is extreme or outright insulting. Please self-report yourself to the Rust moderation team.
That is why I'm not learning Rust until I absolutely have to. The only "Rust" I care about is this one. https://rust.facepunch.com
All it took for me to say no was the bizarre SJW + NewProgrammingLanguage BS. There's been a few articles where Rust contributors were "outed" for SJW violations OUTSIDE of any Rust development, contribution, or discussion environment. IIRC there was even a senior contributor or leader kicked out for it.
I don't need ketchup with my eggs.
So I hope very much so that the whole Rust cult'ish, new-wave, exclusionary, hyper-sensitive snowflake-riddled scene collapses and becomes a wikipedia footnote.
For me, as a C/C++ programmer, I'm going with Go https://golang.org for systems programming and WebAssembly for front-end, and putting any spare training time I have nowadays into learning that. I recommend any of you that care about freedom do the same. This SJW invasion needs to stay the fuck out of programming. I realize Google has their own aspect to it, but it's clear to me the Rust leadership feels SJW is the core of their development, however insane that is. "Now be a good compiler and be a leftist."
People always like to berate government until they get a taste of life without one. You'd loose everything to the biggest bully on any given literal or figurative street.
It really seems obvious most of what Bitcoin is useful for is illegal activities. Personally, I don't need an alternative money structure. I'd be better convinced we need some kind of overall economy more mature than pure capitalism and free markets, especially in light of the inevitably fast approaching robot apocalypse destroying human employ-ability. But even then, I'd always want some kind of human overload supervision executed in some kind of totally transparent manner, not a millisecond computer micro transaction dictating my daily activities and usefulness. I'd consider myself libertarian, however I don't see how any computer controlled society wouldn't just end up pure authoritarian.
Star Trek tells us this is a Bad Idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons
Been a reader on this site since the beginning and it don't seem to be going anywhere. In fact, appears to me they've improved things in the past couple of years, especially with content.
Most entertaining are the occasional random crazy trolls who choose to waste their time on sites they despise.
By "effective" you mean "Not true at all but let's act like it is and then make derivative outrageous indignation conclusions." Got it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft "American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab "a multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia[1] and operated by a holding company in the United Kingdom"
Slashdot Mirror
The NWS must not have checked his references. At least they are consistent about the ~30 minute later "Oopsy, we made a bad"
...and inflicting mouse-driven GUI lunacy on corporations. In all cases, it seemed employees "could do more," but really they "had to do more" because of the new technology. There was the birth of incessant goofing off with solitaire, personal email, social media, ebay, etc. Then companies had to install all kinds of complicated stuff to block, monitor, and mitigate their companies screwing off with their tech. I road the "it must be better because you told me so" $ train for years selling that crap.
I'm not anti-tech to the point of living in a cabin and abusing postal mail, but I do think for many, many purposes, a terminal-based application running off a dedicated host (or cluster of hosts) provides a company with a far more efficient, both in direct & indirect costs, system to accomplish a business goal than all these multi-purpose general-purpose GUI desktop OS's.
Example: I have one customer that had a UNIX terminal and hand scanner system to manage a large network of warehouses and light manufacturing at various geographical locations. They (the accounts and executives) decided the yearly maintenance costs of the UNIX application vendor were too high, so they were going to modernize it. They ended up buying a farm of Windows servers and Windows desktops everywhere (with all the obligatory firewalls, AV, employee monitoring stuff they needed to make their employees actually use the stuff for work) and spent enough money (up front, not planned ongoing costs) to fund 10 years worth of the original UNIX application vendor's maintenance fees.
Worst part: under UNIX terminal system they used hand and forklift scanners with telnet to scan inventory and logistics moves. These cost at most $1000 in the highest complexity scenario; usually about $750 in routine cases. With the new system, every mobile production location needed $6000 Windows hand-held terminals so they could RDP into the fancy smancy Windows terminal farm, all so they could scan 2-D bar codes on supplies and inventory as it moved around the organization. Lunacy.
We were a happier civilization as Cave Men
Wrong, fire this person, everyone involved in any aspect of the operation of the test, and especially the people that created it in the first place without at least 2-person agreement before sending the mass alert. Fire them all. People in our gov't, especially associated with emergency operations must be held to the highest level of excellence and brutally punished when they fail. Let them go get some civilian job and fuck up there. We got 300M+ citizens; someone else can surely do better.
Seriously, wut? Can we trust or believe anything the gov't says or does anymore? I'm going to end every post I make anywhere now with
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
As a gamer, I hope their eventual probation or parole involves every gamer they come in contact with teamkilling them mercilessly and twich'ing every single instance.
...protests, and laziness will look like in Mars colony. Because all of that will happen. That's more entertaining of a thought exercise for me.
and due to my extremely (I just bought that word) limited intelligence (they threw in that one as a BoGo), I was tricked into clicking it. I'm off to craft a new protest sign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXOOwthtaE
Way to go idiot WD programmers, QA, supervisors, managers, and your whole stupid operation.
Love you hard drives though.
Define datacenter. My server room in my basement? My server room in my corporation? My server building at my hosting company? All of them have some form of local on-site office with people and workstations.
This is probably the biggest crock of shit since I don't know when. Sheer lunacy.
Damn you polar bears!
Coward
This article is laughable. Large companies are constantly, every single day, laying off employees somewhere, someplace. And if they are a growing company, as most successful companies are, they actually add more employees than they lay off. AT&T has 273,000 employees total and laying off 600+700+215 equates to 0.55% of their total workforce and no where near any definition of a "large number" of employees.
Cry me a River, snowflakes.
Any which way you measure it, the US economy is booming and every one of us willing to work is benefiting.
These terms from your post are euphemisms for discussing "old people" in an oblique manner:
older
alternative
unwilling to learn
comfort zone
I don't want to go back and forth or get into insulting replies because I'm going to assume you're reasonable. Whether you realize it or not your OP is completely based on age discrimination.
^and there is the additional underlying theme of sanctioned age discrimination in the Rust community.
Nope, not gonna use something based on a community so committed to intolerance, dox'ing, and persecution. I see how so many of the comments here are AC. You all are soo scared of the Rust moderators. Hopefully one of you escapes and makes a de-programming and recovery group. Might even get a TV show.
^And there is the intolerance we're talking about. Nothing in our posts is extreme or outright insulting. Please self-report yourself to the Rust moderation team.
This^
That is why I'm not learning Rust until I absolutely have to. The only "Rust" I care about is this one. https://rust.facepunch.com
All it took for me to say no was the bizarre SJW + NewProgrammingLanguage BS. There's been a few articles where Rust contributors were "outed" for SJW violations OUTSIDE of any Rust development, contribution, or discussion environment. IIRC there was even a senior contributor or leader kicked out for it.
I don't need ketchup with my eggs.
So I hope very much so that the whole Rust cult'ish, new-wave, exclusionary, hyper-sensitive snowflake-riddled scene collapses and becomes a wikipedia footnote.
For me, as a C/C++ programmer, I'm going with Go https://golang.org for systems programming and WebAssembly for front-end, and putting any spare training time I have nowadays into learning that. I recommend any of you that care about freedom do the same. This SJW invasion needs to stay the fuck out of programming. I realize Google has their own aspect to it, but it's clear to me the Rust leadership feels SJW is the core of their development, however insane that is. "Now be a good compiler and be a leftist."
People always like to berate government until they get a taste of life without one. You'd loose everything to the biggest bully on any given literal or figurative street.
It really seems obvious most of what Bitcoin is useful for is illegal activities. Personally, I don't need an alternative money structure. I'd be better convinced we need some kind of overall economy more mature than pure capitalism and free markets, especially in light of the inevitably fast approaching robot apocalypse destroying human employ-ability. But even then, I'd always want some kind of human overload supervision executed in some kind of totally transparent manner, not a millisecond computer micro transaction dictating my daily activities and usefulness. I'd consider myself libertarian, however I don't see how any computer controlled society wouldn't just end up pure authoritarian.
Star Trek tells us this is a Bad Idea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons
wth are you talking about? Go home commie, we don't want your software
Been a reader on this site since the beginning and it don't seem to be going anywhere. In fact, appears to me they've improved things in the past couple of years, especially with content.
Most entertaining are the occasional random crazy trolls who choose to waste their time on sites they despise.
Lol coward is correct. Please never change they way you are, it's easier for us to identify and avoid your kind.
There's a lot of like-minded confused people that appear to feel the same way https://i.imgur.com/tc8v36K.jpg
By "effective" you mean "Not true at all but let's act like it is and then make derivative outrageous indignation conclusions." Got it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
"American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab
"a multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia[1] and operated by a holding company in the United Kingdom"
And no, I choose not to take you seriously.
Please elaborate. I fail to see the relevancy to my post. Do you think Kaspersky is a US company?