Yeah, my doc and I have gone round and round on this. When I have 6 hours a day to exercise and deal with a basket of freshly picked vegetables from my 100% organic garden...THEN we'll talk.
"You're just being LAZY!", he says.
"NO! You Clueless ASS####! I work 9+ hours a day and drive an hour each way....So that ties up MORE or LESS half of a 24 hour day. Then you want me to get 8 hours of sleep, leaving me about 4 or 5 hours to do the $#!+ I LIKE doing...not spending it shopping for NON-GMO ORGANICS and preparing each thing fresh daily."
IMHO--it's because the HR people don't understand enough information technology. These people went to week long classes to help them understand the changes between MS Office 2007 and 2010--and still came out hopelessly lost.
I had one company say I needed a CERTIFICIATION for their BACKUP SOFTWARE. In fact, the certs they DEMANDED would have cost me most of my first year's pay to get. And yes, I was totally boggled by the concept that there is a certification test for doing cloud based backups to their backup vendor's servers, I was flabbergasted that they charge $300 for the test and $1200 for a week of training at their corporate HQ.
Post-post-post... And soon we'll all be over educated unemployed idiots in debt up to our eyeballs and fighting cage matches for McJobs to buy white bread and cans of Chef-boy-ar-dee.
All totally voluntary. And if you don't volunteer, they ask you to voluntarily submit to a session of police brutally, interrogation, and follow it up with arrest for disturbing the peace.
I used to work for a county that is famous for the amount and quality of its moonshine. One day they raided a still and arrested about half a dozen people in one family. Later , I asked the sheriff, "There's dozens more like them up in those hollers, why don't you arrest more?" The sheriff replied, "if we arrested all the 'shiners in Franklin County, we wouldn't have a tax base."
Don't get me wrong. I LIKE Neil DeGrasse Tyson, but Carl Sagan was special. He was a scientist with the soul of a poet. Neil's a great scientist, but I just don't think he has the poetry.
NO. I stay on them and I periodically go see a shrink. Do you mind?
I grew up with a dad who thought all problems children had could be solved by beating them out of them.
If he couldn't see it bleeding or bent at a funny angle...if it wasn't running a fever or projectile vomiting--beat the kid until it feels better.
Kid doesn't need glasses--he just needs his face smacked until he sees better. Didn't need to go to the dentist--just reach in with a pair of pliers and pull out the offending tooth.
Dad also didn't believe in such illnesses as schizophrenia...when my cousin got diagnosed, it was OBVIOUSLY because his mother let him get by with too much as a child and didn't keep him in line. He offered to cure him--HONESTLY DID--by getting a couple of guys together and beat the hell out of him until he quit he "hearing voices". My aunt didn't talk to our family for a long time. Dad was confused as to why. BTW, the cousin--is pretty well managed with meds. He holds a job and lives in a group home....And I've visited him and his roomies and they're a great bunch of sweet people.
Just because you don't believe in something and can't figure out why it exists does not mean that it DOESN'T exist when evidence of it can be found right before your eyes.
I know some people who are honestly nutters. Sweet people. Good people. When they're on their meds and under treatment. If they miss some meds, OTOH, you don't want to be around them.
When reporting (simple reporting) we estimated 1 hour per input file, one hour per output file, and one hour overhead. This was OLD big iron, but it worked.
Our DB scripting language was proprietary, but worked pretty well. And with very few exceptions, the formula for figuring out how long it would take to code a report was pretty good, too.
NOW, RUN TIMES---that's a different matter.
I had one canned report that we only ran annually because it took a MINIMUM of 40 hours of processing time. We didn't write the thing, the AP/AR software vendor did. Since we had a nightly downtime it actually had a break point so the system could cycle. Well, I had this manager who wanted me to run it NOW and give him the results in an HOUR! I told him that was impossible and tried to explain why.....he got ANGRY and said I had an hour to get it to him or he would have security escort me from the building. I went to my manager who tried to smooth it down, but he got threatened with HIS job. Good news is, EVERY canned report saved at least 20 run histories, not the data, but a file that showed how the run went with processing times, CPU utilization, etc. For the 40 hours the report ran, it took up 20% of our utilization. It's why we only ran it 1 weekend a year. We ran it. listened to him bitch about the time But, at least he knew we COULDN'T change it---actually my boss's boss talked to HIS boss after seeing the copies of the run logs and asking him not to threaten to fire the IT people. Then we printed it. It took 4 boxes of greenbar. NORMALLY, it would have been saved to something that could be viewed and searched--but when it's "mission critical" and they need it 40 hours faster than possible--it is SO nice to deliver 150lbs of paper to the guy using a moving dolley.
BZZZZT! Wrong! But THANK YOU for playing! Tell him about his Parting Gift of a Lifetime Supply of Turtle Wax, Don!
I used to work for a medical equipment manufacturer. We were STUCK with XP-Pro. We were buying our licenses from a Microsoft subsidiary in Switzerland that could still sell XP-Pro. We ACTUALLY supplied computers (laptops, desktops, workstations, and servers) in addition to printers, networking equipment, and peripherals. We bought our machines from Dell with NO OS installed (actually it came with FreeDOS). Our printers were HP and monitors (not attached to laptops) were really high end Sony. We hooked the computers up to the actual medical equipment we manufactured. If our supplier end-of-life'd a printer, we BASICALLY had to purchase as much stock as we could fit into our warehouse. A change in printer meant we had to do MONTHS of testing FDA testing to ensure the new printer would have ZERO effect on patient outcome. We joked that we had to surgically insert printers into patients to see if their bodies reacted.
Our computers included specialty proprietary cards--it took YEARS of testing to re-write drivers for a new OS. I SERIOUSLY thought we should TRY to get a professional Linux company like Redhat to write us our OWN STABLE version and lock it down, but, that wasn't my call to make. I suggested it, but it was shot down.
When this ole laptop finally goes to the Great Recycler, I plan to buy a cheap Windows 8 laptop that I can turn off SecureBoot and reformat it for Linux.
I used to work for a medical equipment manufacturer. We actually made servers, desktops, and laptops designed to connect to and control medical imaging equipment. As you may know, it takes YEARS to certify medical equipment and the things that connect to them. We actually had an inside joke that if HP quit making our printer, we'd have to insert its replacement into patients for 7 years of testing. Not far off. We HAVE to be able to prove to the FDA that a change in our Hardware, Software, or Peripherals do not adversely affect the function of the medical device and that the OUTPUT FROM the Hardware, Software, and Peripherals are EXACTLY the same. It takes 2 years to get an incremental IMPROVEMENT to the SOFTWARE approved. A change in OS--They MIGHT be finally finishing up the move to WIndows 7 now.(We had special permission from M$ and the EU to buy XP-Pro from a M$ division in Switzerland) And since we ship to Europe--GOTTA DO IT TWICE! (Asia & South America are pretty trusting--Africa's just happy to get medical equipment).
I'm SURE Medical Software companies could find SOME commercial linux company like RedHat to lock down an OS for them.
NO, Sparky, There IS NO talent shortage--there is just a shortage American born talent willing to work for Starbux wages. I've been to interviews where they were demanding certs in 4 modules of SAP, but only paying $60K. Dude. It costs in the neighborhood of $100K to GET 4 modules of SAP certs. Most companies pay a guy with 2 Certs on the order of $120K. 4 Certs the bidding in Cheapville is $180K. Yep, somebody with 4 certs in SAP makes approx what a MD General Practician makes in a rural market. Went to one place that was 100% H1-B's (until they FINALLY got busted--YAY!) they were paying $8/hr (yep, I said Eight Dollars per Hour) for C++ programmers. After work the herd of Indians, Pakistanis, and Filipinos would board the city buses and go to their second jobs at Wal-Mart, Subway, McDonalds, etc. Some of them made more at their FAST FOOD JOBS than they did working for the IT Shop!
There is no shortage of qualified IT people--it's a shortage of IT people who don't have mortgages, car payments, and student loans to pay off so they are ABLE, WILLING, and HAPPY to work for under $20,000/yr with no benefits.
You're saying you can't take ANY limitations on the Second Amendment--we can't do ANYTHING to keep guns out of the hands of certified maniacs or former felons by doing extensive background checks.
SO, let's just drop a load of shit on the First, Forth, and (probably) Fifth Amendments.
What the problem is, the gun lobby is threatening to spank ongr€$$ with its on$iderable h€kbook. Since we the Gamers can't spend billions on owning our own private members of the national legislature--we get our amendments folded in 3 corners and stuffed up our @$$.
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Yeah, my doc and I have gone round and round on this. When I have 6 hours a day to exercise and deal with a basket of freshly picked vegetables from my 100% organic garden...THEN we'll talk.
"You're just being LAZY!", he says.
"NO! You Clueless ASS####! I work 9+ hours a day and drive an hour each way....So that ties up MORE or LESS half of a 24 hour day. Then you want me to get 8 hours of sleep, leaving me about 4 or 5 hours to do the $#!+ I LIKE doing...not spending it shopping for NON-GMO ORGANICS and preparing each thing fresh daily."
IMHO--it's because the HR people don't understand enough information technology. These people went to week long classes to help them understand the changes between MS Office 2007 and 2010--and still came out hopelessly lost.
I had one company say I needed a CERTIFICIATION for their BACKUP SOFTWARE. In fact, the certs they DEMANDED would have cost me most of my first year's pay to get. And yes, I was totally boggled by the concept that there is a certification test for doing cloud based backups to their backup vendor's servers, I was flabbergasted that they charge $300 for the test and $1200 for a week of training at their corporate HQ.
Post-post-post...
And soon we'll all be over educated unemployed idiots in debt up to our eyeballs and fighting cage matches for McJobs to buy white bread and cans of Chef-boy-ar-dee.
And the CAT scan and cavity search.
All totally voluntary. And if you don't volunteer, they ask you to voluntarily submit to a session of police brutally, interrogation, and follow it up with arrest for disturbing the peace.
Other Python members claim he is deceased, but his agent has said Mr Chapman can be available for the right price.
In the Ohio Republican Party Headquarters.
(used to be Florida, but Florida is getting a tad to brown for the GOP.)
I wonder if the Committee will deliver to the Moscow airport?
Oil companies will have the U.S. Gov't torpedo the ships.
Over in Europe, Smart Cars get twice the mileage as here. Cars in Japan are almost twice as fuel efficient.
They'll have to put a device on the thing that makes it get under 50MPG, or they won't let it in the country.
I used to work for a county that is famous for the amount and quality of its moonshine. One day they raided a still and arrested about half a dozen people in one family. Later , I asked the sheriff, "There's dozens more like them up in those hollers, why don't you arrest more?"
The sheriff replied, "if we arrested all the 'shiners in Franklin County, we wouldn't have a tax base."
He'll look more like WALL-E than a T-800
Don't get me wrong. I LIKE Neil DeGrasse Tyson, but Carl Sagan was special. He was a scientist with the soul of a poet. Neil's a great scientist, but I just don't think he has the poetry.
Yeah. If they keep it up, they'll lower the limit so low that if you sniff a beer cap, you won't be able to drive for a year.
OK, that's hyperbole, but did you know that eating a piece of hot fresh bread can change your detectable blood alcohol level? Yep.
SO, how low can you go?
No. I think our threads got crossed.
Actually, I wasn't asserting anything of the sort
NO. I stay on them and I periodically go see a shrink. Do you mind?
I grew up with a dad who thought all problems children had could be solved by beating them out of them.
If he couldn't see it bleeding or bent at a funny angle...if it wasn't running a fever or projectile vomiting--beat the kid until it feels better.
Kid doesn't need glasses--he just needs his face smacked until he sees better. Didn't need to go to the dentist--just reach in with a pair of pliers and pull out the offending tooth.
Dad also didn't believe in such illnesses as schizophrenia...when my cousin got diagnosed, it was OBVIOUSLY because his mother let him get by with too much as a child and didn't keep him in line. He offered to cure him--HONESTLY DID--by getting a couple of guys together and beat the hell out of him until he quit he "hearing voices". My aunt didn't talk to our family for a long time. Dad was confused as to why. BTW, the cousin--is pretty well managed with meds. He holds a job and lives in a group home....And I've visited him and his roomies and they're a great bunch of sweet people.
Some people are still koo-koo for Co-co Puffs.
Just because you don't believe in something and can't figure out why it exists does not mean that it DOESN'T exist when evidence of it can be found right before your eyes.
I know some people who are honestly nutters. Sweet people. Good people. When they're on their meds and under treatment. If they miss some meds, OTOH, you don't want to be around them.
We're going to have to learn to feed people better using less energy.
Or we're going to learn how to process people into food.
When reporting (simple reporting) we estimated 1 hour per input file, one hour per output file, and one hour overhead. This was OLD big iron, but it worked.
Our DB scripting language was proprietary, but worked pretty well. And with very few exceptions, the formula for figuring out how long it would take to code a report was pretty good, too.
NOW, RUN TIMES---that's a different matter.
I had one canned report that we only ran annually because it took a MINIMUM of 40 hours of processing time. We didn't write the thing, the AP/AR software vendor did. Since we had a nightly downtime it actually had a break point so the system could cycle. Well, I had this manager who wanted me to run it NOW and give him the results in an HOUR! I told him that was impossible and tried to explain why.....he got ANGRY and said I had an hour to get it to him or he would have security escort me from the building. I went to my manager who tried to smooth it down, but he got threatened with HIS job. Good news is, EVERY canned report saved at least 20 run histories, not the data, but a file that showed how the run went with processing times, CPU utilization, etc. For the 40 hours the report ran, it took up 20% of our utilization. It's why we only ran it 1 weekend a year. We ran it. listened to him bitch about the time But, at least he knew we COULDN'T change it---actually my boss's boss talked to HIS boss after seeing the copies of the run logs and asking him not to threaten to fire the IT people. Then we printed it. It took 4 boxes of greenbar. NORMALLY, it would have been saved to something that could be viewed and searched--but when it's "mission critical" and they need it 40 hours faster than possible--it is SO nice to deliver 150lbs of paper to the guy using a moving dolley.
BZZZZT! Wrong! But THANK YOU for playing! Tell him about his Parting Gift of a Lifetime Supply of Turtle Wax, Don!
I used to work for a medical equipment manufacturer. We were STUCK with XP-Pro. We were buying our licenses from a Microsoft subsidiary in Switzerland that could still sell XP-Pro.
We ACTUALLY supplied computers (laptops, desktops, workstations, and servers) in addition to printers, networking equipment, and peripherals. We bought our machines from Dell with NO OS installed (actually it came with FreeDOS). Our printers were HP and monitors (not attached to laptops) were really high end Sony. We hooked the computers up to the actual medical equipment we manufactured. If our supplier end-of-life'd a printer, we BASICALLY had to purchase as much stock as we could fit into our warehouse. A change in printer meant we had to do MONTHS of testing FDA testing to ensure the new printer would have ZERO effect on patient outcome. We joked that we had to surgically insert printers into patients to see if their bodies reacted.
Our computers included specialty proprietary cards--it took YEARS of testing to re-write drivers for a new OS. I SERIOUSLY thought we should TRY to get a professional Linux company like Redhat to write us our OWN STABLE version and lock it down, but, that wasn't my call to make. I suggested it, but it was shot down.
Windows Vista was AMBITIOUS and BUGGY! BUT, not a radical departure from XP when it came to user interface. It JUST WAS TOO BUGGY!
Win7 is PRETTY good. IMHO not a VAST improvement from XP-PRO, but some things are better, some things aren't worse.
Win8 is for Grandma to update her Facebook page with pictures of her grandkids and for Grandpa to watch re-runs on Netflix--and THAT'S ABOUT IT!
My next laptop, I'm just going to buy a cheap one, then void the warranty and install Fedora.
When this ole laptop finally goes to the Great Recycler, I plan to buy a cheap Windows 8 laptop that I can turn off SecureBoot and reformat it for Linux.
I'm using a RHEL clone now. Works Great!
I used to work for a medical equipment manufacturer. We actually made servers, desktops, and laptops designed to connect to and control medical imaging equipment. As you may know, it takes YEARS to certify medical equipment and the things that connect to them. We actually had an inside joke that if HP quit making our printer, we'd have to insert its replacement into patients for 7 years of testing. Not far off. We HAVE to be able to prove to the FDA that a change in our Hardware, Software, or Peripherals do not adversely affect the function of the medical device and that the OUTPUT FROM the Hardware, Software, and Peripherals are EXACTLY the same. It takes 2 years to get an incremental IMPROVEMENT to the SOFTWARE approved. A change in OS--They MIGHT be finally finishing up the move to WIndows 7 now.(We had special permission from M$ and the EU to buy XP-Pro from a M$ division in Switzerland) And since we ship to Europe--GOTTA DO IT TWICE! (Asia & South America are pretty trusting--Africa's just happy to get medical equipment).
I'm SURE Medical Software companies could find SOME commercial linux company like RedHat to lock down an OS for them.
NO, Sparky, There IS NO talent shortage--there is just a shortage American born talent willing to work for Starbux wages. I've been to interviews where they were demanding certs in 4 modules of SAP, but only paying $60K. Dude. It costs in the neighborhood of $100K to GET 4 modules of SAP certs. Most companies pay a guy with 2 Certs on the order of $120K. 4 Certs the bidding in Cheapville is $180K. Yep, somebody with 4 certs in SAP makes approx what a MD General Practician makes in a rural market. Went to one place that was 100% H1-B's (until they FINALLY got busted--YAY!) they were paying $8/hr (yep, I said Eight Dollars per Hour) for C++ programmers. After work the herd of Indians, Pakistanis, and Filipinos would board the city buses and go to their second jobs at Wal-Mart, Subway, McDonalds, etc. Some of them made more at their FAST FOOD JOBS than they did working for the IT Shop!
There is no shortage of qualified IT people--it's a shortage of IT people who don't have mortgages, car payments, and student loans to pay off so they are ABLE, WILLING, and HAPPY to work for under $20,000/yr with no benefits.
You're going to have to hire Americans and pay them more than Starbux employees!
Maybe next year you can reel in a few H1-B's on the CHEAP! But you gotta be FASTER!
You're saying you can't take ANY limitations on the Second Amendment--we can't do ANYTHING to keep guns out of the hands of certified maniacs or former felons by doing extensive background checks.
SO, let's just drop a load of shit on the First, Forth, and (probably) Fifth Amendments.
What the problem is, the gun lobby is threatening to spank ongr€$$ with its on$iderable h€kbook. Since we the Gamers can't spend billions on owning our own private members of the national legislature--we get our amendments folded in 3 corners and stuffed up our @$$.