Uber is seeking to replace taxi drivers who scrape out a living with hobbyist looking to pick up a few bucks in their spare time. Hope Uber looses and it bankrupts them.
I have seen job ads with an entire laundry list of *required* certs that would cost half your annual salary to obtain and maintain.
The most egregious was a certificate for a specific piece of backup software that cost $1200 for the class (plus travel) and $500 to renew every two years. A hospital I applied to required it, plus about a dozen more vendor specific certs.
Go over well in the high security and high availability corporate office.
We don't allow anything to install without a test. We need to make sure we can install, run out currently functioning apps, and uninstall before we'll let it thru the gate.
Without a change to how our economy functions, specialist AI will make millions of people's employment positions redundant. Not only does this take them out of the workforce, under our current economic system, it takes them out of the consumer force. This reduces the marketability of goods produced by the AI workforce, since consumers will have no ability to afford them.
Not so concerned about my e-mails being read. I use GMail, after all.
BUT, I do take great umbrage to the concept of my financial transactions being barely encrypted. IF I thought my Amazon transactions, or my online banking were poorly encrypted, I'd be back to cash only in brick and mortar stores and banks in a NYC second.
It wasn't TATA, but another consulting firm about 2005. They placed an ad for consultants who coded in COBOL, knew DB2, etc. Standard business programmer at the time. I thought it was strange that they were advertising in a weekly local supermarket ad rag instead of the local or regional newspapers.
I applied and through a bit of investigation found a phone number to follow up my application and resume.
The guy BLATANTLY told me "We're not hiring any Americans".
I was understandably angry. SO, then I went to their building, which was only about 5 miles from my house. (DUDE, even if the basic job SUCKED, that commute would have been worth it) and EVERY single person going in or out was Indian. I don't mind them. It's the fact that they turned their office into an H-1B only club.
I did file a complaint with the Employment Commission, but it went nowhere of course.
Yeah, Simon--if you're permanently screwed into a position, you're fine at 50 or 60. But if your job gets proverbially "blown out from under you", you're proverbially "permanently screwed".
The good news, there are "Temp agencies". They're fine, if you don't mind working for half pay and driving twice as far.
there is a wing of the GOP that is either Honor Bound or Genetically Programmed to take the opposite side.
One of these days, he's going to come out Against Russian Roulette. And 1/6 of the ones that own revolvers are going to shoot themselves in the head. 100% of the ones that own Glocks.
The problem is--this doesn't work in general. A desktop system is REALLY a completely different animal from phones/tablets.
Microsoft has only made incremental improvements to the UI that it pretty much perfected with XP-Pro. (we will say nothing of the Vista debacle). Seriously--on Linux and other unix like systems, the KDE desktop, Gnome, XCFE, etc, ALL have similar features to XP (or vice-versa, according to how you wish to interpret it)
Windows 7 is GOOD, and internally has much better technology than XP (I have become quite enamored with PowerShell, if I DO say so) . And INTERNALLY, there is nothing majorly wrong with WIn8. But the Win8 user experience took a left turn into the Twilight Zone as far as I'm concerned. It's FINE for Tablets and Phones, but is completely asinine on a desktop.
And then there's Server 2012. MS went OUT OF ITS WAY to hide functions that system admins ABSOLUTELY NEED (and usually need QUICKLY) on a server.
I used to live in a city, Roanoke, VA, where THAT was the EXACT solution--Only, it wasn't "Entice"...it was put them on an old school bus and drive them to a city 40 miles away--Lynchburg, VA. Lynchburg would then round up a bus load of their own and send them to Roanoke.
It really didn't SOLVE anything--it just kept the homeless population well churned.
Due to global climate change, the Danes can take advantage of it by cornering the market on oil and methane--thereby causing more global climate change.
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to BULLSHIT! I wanna hurl every time I smell it!
I am EXTREMELY allergic to BULLSHIT.
The smell of it makes me violent.
I'm not to good with IDIOCY, either.
For about 15 minutes.
Good try, guys.
Have you BEEN to Kentucky? You'd know the answer to that rhetorical question.
Uber is seeking to replace taxi drivers who scrape out a living with hobbyist looking to pick up a few bucks in their spare time.
Hope Uber looses and it bankrupts them.
I have seen job ads with an entire laundry list of *required* certs that would cost half your annual salary to obtain and maintain.
The most egregious was a certificate for a specific piece of backup software that cost $1200 for the class (plus travel) and $500 to renew every two years. A hospital I applied to required it, plus about a dozen more vendor specific certs.
Go over well in the high security and high availability corporate office.
We don't allow anything to install without a test. We need to make sure we can install, run out currently functioning apps, and uninstall before we'll let it thru the gate.
Is far more of an issue in the short term.
Without a change to how our economy functions, specialist AI will make millions of people's employment positions redundant. Not only does this take them out of the workforce, under our current economic system, it takes them out of the consumer force. This reduces the marketability of goods produced by the AI workforce, since consumers will have no ability to afford them.
NOT!
Considering most of the good ones come from Russia, China, and India.
Not so concerned about my e-mails being read. I use GMail, after all.
BUT, I do take great umbrage to the concept of my financial transactions being barely encrypted. IF I thought my Amazon transactions, or my online banking were poorly encrypted, I'd be back to cash only in brick and mortar stores and banks in a NYC second.
The average American drives 13,476 miles per year. This translates to a $202/vehicle tax. I'm sure it would be more for commercial drivers.
And as they said, you gotta have roads. They don't grow themselves.
a guy who knows what he likes to do. Especially when what he likes to do is pound people into the pavement.
That Harry has quite a bit of money now and MAYBE, he just wants to do something else? Or retire? Or take a 2 year vacation somewhere?
Dude, just because someone is offered a bucket of money, doesn't mean it has any value to them.
Tell me why you want American's dollars but no American employees?
Horseshit! Bob!
Like Ted Cruz threatened (yes, thinly veiled) NASA Director Charles Bolden.
Tedder called Maj-Gen (RET) Bolden with replacement for directing entirely too much of NASA's science work TOWARD EARTH instead of Outer Space.
C'mon! Threaten the Pope! Tell Francis I he can be replaced with a more pliant Archbishop!
I was told by a Verizon technician that I needed to be within 10 feet of my WiFi router to get Netflix to stream.
-er- If I were within 10 feet of the router, I'd run a CAT5 cable and not worry about it, dude. There's not more than 50 feet distance as it is.
It wasn't TATA, but another consulting firm about 2005. They placed an ad for consultants who coded in COBOL, knew DB2, etc. Standard business programmer at the time. I thought it was strange that they were advertising in a weekly local supermarket ad rag instead of the local or regional newspapers.
I applied and through a bit of investigation found a phone number to follow up my application and resume.
The guy BLATANTLY told me "We're not hiring any Americans".
I was understandably angry. SO, then I went to their building, which was only about 5 miles from my house. (DUDE, even if the basic job SUCKED, that commute would have been worth it) and EVERY single person going in or out was Indian. I don't mind them. It's the fact that they turned their office into an H-1B only club.
I did file a complaint with the Employment Commission, but it went nowhere of course.
Yeah, Simon--if you're permanently screwed into a position, you're fine at 50 or 60. But if your job gets proverbially "blown out from under you", you're proverbially "permanently screwed".
The good news, there are "Temp agencies". They're fine, if you don't mind working for half pay and driving twice as far.
...the sea water around your ankles on the OBT. It'll be fine.
there is a wing of the GOP that is either Honor Bound or Genetically Programmed to take the opposite side.
One of these days, he's going to come out Against Russian Roulette. And 1/6 of the ones that own revolvers are going to shoot themselves in the head. 100% of the ones that own Glocks.
The problem is--this doesn't work in general. A desktop system is REALLY a completely different animal from phones/tablets.
Microsoft has only made incremental improvements to the UI that it pretty much perfected with XP-Pro. (we will say nothing of the Vista debacle). Seriously--on Linux and other unix like systems, the KDE desktop, Gnome, XCFE, etc, ALL have similar features to XP (or vice-versa, according to how you wish to interpret it)
Windows 7 is GOOD, and internally has much better technology than XP (I have become quite enamored with PowerShell, if I DO say so) . And INTERNALLY, there is nothing majorly wrong with WIn8. But the Win8 user experience took a left turn into the Twilight Zone as far as I'm concerned. It's FINE for Tablets and Phones, but is completely asinine on a desktop.
And then there's Server 2012. MS went OUT OF ITS WAY to hide functions that system admins ABSOLUTELY NEED (and usually need QUICKLY) on a server.
I used to live in a city, Roanoke, VA, where THAT was the EXACT solution--Only, it wasn't "Entice"...it was put them on an old school bus and drive them to a city 40 miles away--Lynchburg, VA. Lynchburg would then round up a bus load of their own and send them to Roanoke.
It really didn't SOLVE anything--it just kept the homeless population well churned.
And last time, it was Vista. It appears Microsoft's fallback position when they screw up is to burn the bridge behind them and keep on screwing up?
Any wonder I like Linux for everything except the occasional PC game?
In two weeks(maybe more, maybe less), they'll kiss and make up like newlyweds after their first big fight.
Might even do it right there on the table in front of the rest of the meeting.
Due to global climate change, the Danes can take advantage of it by cornering the market on oil and methane--thereby causing more global climate change.
Is anybody else seeing a problem?