I was taught assembler (360);PL/1;Fortran/WAT4COBOL;RPG1 in College and picked up BASIC on my own.I won't agree that everyone should learn how to code, as I watched several classmates STRUGGLE at even the most basic routines (read/write). I found that one needs to have an aptitude for coding and a passion for it, otherwise it can be a very painful experience.
If someone is curious and wants to learn more about it, by all means be supportive and encourage them, but to *force* someone to code, not to sure about the success rate of that method, IMHO
the highly skilled engineer loves his job, the challenge that it gives him technically and the satisfaction of finding the solution and having it implemented. so go into management where it's all politics, meetings and knowing that those who were once your peers are now your staff. Who could resist such a plum job. I tried it once, never again
I'd rather have a bottle in from of me that a frontal lobotomy.....
fortunately not all.
there are some really progressive, forward thinking Managers out there that are not afraid to try new ideas and technologies
they are scare though......
That's right, use the FUD tactic, it's worked so well up until now.....
That's why some of the major Companies are bringing their operations back *onshore*, all the time wasted fixing the work done be offshore hands, plus the language barriers. Once great way to piss your customers off is when they are already upset about your product/service not functioning properly is to make them talk to somebody they can't understand, do to a thick accent
did you forget?
our wonderously brilliant Supreme Court declared Corporations are *people*
nothing new here, just those with all the money making the rules to suit them.....
Very true, the Porn industry has also set the standard for VHS and Beta Max.
The masses will come, if there is something they want. When Porn became more readily available due to higher transmission speeds (faster modems), then more users flocked to it.
Sex sells.
Right, when the Lawmakers get inconvenienced or treated like the rest of us, they change the laws (or have the power/connections to get the process started)
Now, let's make them give up their nice cozy pension plans and medical care plans, all taxpayer subsidized, which in many cases includes their Family members, for life. Make them use the same pool of resources the common man has, deductibles, co-pays, waiting periods. Let them see $$$ coming out their pockets, not just for the same cost of the monthly premiums we have to pay, but have them dive into their pockets when they get the prescriptions, like we do. I want to see their reaction after paying their premiums, and they now find out the have to meet their deductibles, otherwise it's *dig into your pockets again* to pay those.
Both the pension plans and the medical plans are taxpayer paid, why can't we all get a sweet deal like that, it's our money?!?!?
You say the Government can't run a good health care program, have a look at the Military. Not saying the men and women who serve our Country don't deserve it, I'm saying we do too, since we pay for it, ON TOP OF OUR OWN COVERAGES.....
Yeah, make 'em eat their own dogfood!
I propose we cut ALL their taxpayer paid benefits, retirement and make them pay for it themselves
Wanna see how quickly the rest of us get better benefits and retirement packages. These lazy bums won't/can't do their job in Washington, yet they expect US to pay the bill for their perks.
Yes, real life computer communications/hacking is boring, real Admins don't use GUI's, command line baby, all the way.
Have you ever seen the GUI for firewall software? It could take you days to figure it out if you have legal access.
Get in through command line, swap out the *rules files* restart fw instance and go where ever you want
No R2D2 could *speak* but had to use beeps and squeeks to do it.
Now, why would a supposedly highly advanced machine such as this need to use auditory communications?
When hardware is too *old* to run windows effectively any longer, it becomes a LINUX server in my house. While 2gb of memory or less may tax Microsoft applications, a LINUX fileserver (samba) and Openoffice for the kids homework is just fine. Tighter kernel, less bloat.
We just got our Son starting College a new laptop, it came with W7. At 1st glance I see no great advantage to this new OS, all the other Windows systems we use are running XP, it it does what we need. W7 may be much better than VISTA, but unless forced I will use what works and causes me the less maintenance (we don't get paid for maintaining home systems now do we:-) ) I am a UNIX Admin and would like to let that sleeping dog just lie....
I had hoped to be able to replace the 3 laptops I bought the Fam in 2007 by now, but given the economy, not possible. Unless it dies completely (overheated cpu/gpu due to insufficient cooling) or another child starts College, I will have to limp along with what I have, and re-purpose from Windows to LINUX to extend hardware usage.
The only exception to this was my cell phone, now I actually have a Droid. Hard to imagine that hardware making technological improvements by leaps and bounds, for me the apps are what make it very useful for now.
Given their *standards* for security and the model that everything should be visable by everyone, this brakes the basic rules of security.
I for one would never trust FB with my private info, let alone a SSO password.
I agree with Older Guy....I really don't want to be *forced* to socialize with many of my co-workers.
I am a techie, and my free time is spent with my Family, they are the reason I work (well, that and boredom), and my friends. If I do socialize with any of my co-workers, it will be MY choice of who and when.
Activities like bowling, golf, etc are good, but to just generally *have* to sit around an chat....no thanks.
And don't even get me started on *team-building* crap......
I'd just like to take this opportunity to tip my hat to the folks that designed this rover. It was slated for a 180 day mission, and they just finished up day 2,190. That's some pretty high quality engineering that must have gone into this project, especially when you take into account it's on *another planet*, so no tech to fiddle with something that's just a bit off here or there.
No parts, no cleaning, no help at all. To top that off, it's doing all of this on Mars, which isn't really an electronics friendly environment. It crash landed on another planet from a rocket ship and worked 10x longer than it was supposed to.
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I was spared the forced upgrade because I had an old Cisco VPN client installed It apparently made M$ sick and it kept skipping my system
I was taught assembler (360);PL/1;Fortran/WAT4COBOL;RPG1 in College and picked up BASIC on my own.I won't agree that everyone should learn how to code, as I watched several classmates STRUGGLE at even the most basic routines (read/write). I found that one needs to have an aptitude for coding and a passion for it, otherwise it can be a very painful experience. If someone is curious and wants to learn more about it, by all means be supportive and encourage them, but to *force* someone to code, not to sure about the success rate of that method, IMHO
the highly skilled engineer loves his job, the challenge that it gives him technically and the satisfaction of finding the solution and having it implemented. so go into management where it's all politics, meetings and knowing that those who were once your peers are now your staff. Who could resist such a plum job. I tried it once, never again I'd rather have a bottle in from of me that a frontal lobotomy.....
Everything he says is a lie (Spock's Brain)
of course they all reach agreement on Helium it's the one thing they all have in common, and they are full of GAS
it's like using color on your graphs are you getting more CEOs/CTOs/Managers reading this site? just sayin'
fortunately not all. there are some really progressive, forward thinking Managers out there that are not afraid to try new ideas and technologies they are scare though......
That's right, use the FUD tactic, it's worked so well up until now..... That's why some of the major Companies are bringing their operations back *onshore*, all the time wasted fixing the work done be offshore hands, plus the language barriers. Once great way to piss your customers off is when they are already upset about your product/service not functioning properly is to make them talk to somebody they can't understand, do to a thick accent
I call it Dinosaur Management. Sounds like we need another *mass extinction*
how about a magnifying glass to read those insanely small print serial/model number labels some vendors like to use?
Great!!! Now give everyone in Congress a pitcher of water and sit back and wait for the free fuel........
Ground's not very solid is it?
how about NOYFB!
I don't need Rah Rah Ziss Boom Bah Show me dah money!!!!! Now you have my attention and motivation
did you forget? our wonderously brilliant Supreme Court declared Corporations are *people* nothing new here, just those with all the money making the rules to suit them.....
Enough said.
Very true, the Porn industry has also set the standard for VHS and Beta Max. The masses will come, if there is something they want. When Porn became more readily available due to higher transmission speeds (faster modems), then more users flocked to it. Sex sells.
Right, when the Lawmakers get inconvenienced or treated like the rest of us, they change the laws (or have the power/connections to get the process started) Now, let's make them give up their nice cozy pension plans and medical care plans, all taxpayer subsidized, which in many cases includes their Family members, for life. Make them use the same pool of resources the common man has, deductibles, co-pays, waiting periods. Let them see $$$ coming out their pockets, not just for the same cost of the monthly premiums we have to pay, but have them dive into their pockets when they get the prescriptions, like we do. I want to see their reaction after paying their premiums, and they now find out the have to meet their deductibles, otherwise it's *dig into your pockets again* to pay those. Both the pension plans and the medical plans are taxpayer paid, why can't we all get a sweet deal like that, it's our money?!?!? You say the Government can't run a good health care program, have a look at the Military. Not saying the men and women who serve our Country don't deserve it, I'm saying we do too, since we pay for it, ON TOP OF OUR OWN COVERAGES..... Yeah, make 'em eat their own dogfood!
I propose we cut ALL their taxpayer paid benefits, retirement and make them pay for it themselves Wanna see how quickly the rest of us get better benefits and retirement packages. These lazy bums won't/can't do their job in Washington, yet they expect US to pay the bill for their perks.
if it ain't broke don't fix it! I see no BSOD's here I see no need to reboot everyday Everybody hates success........
Yes, real life computer communications/hacking is boring, real Admins don't use GUI's, command line baby, all the way. Have you ever seen the GUI for firewall software? It could take you days to figure it out if you have legal access. Get in through command line, swap out the *rules files* restart fw instance and go where ever you want
No R2D2 could *speak* but had to use beeps and squeeks to do it. Now, why would a supposedly highly advanced machine such as this need to use auditory communications?
When hardware is too *old* to run windows effectively any longer, it becomes a LINUX server in my house. While 2gb of memory or less may tax Microsoft applications, a LINUX fileserver (samba) and Openoffice for the kids homework is just fine. Tighter kernel, less bloat. We just got our Son starting College a new laptop, it came with W7. At 1st glance I see no great advantage to this new OS, all the other Windows systems we use are running XP, it it does what we need. W7 may be much better than VISTA, but unless forced I will use what works and causes me the less maintenance (we don't get paid for maintaining home systems now do we :-) ) I am a UNIX Admin and would like to let that sleeping dog just lie....
I had hoped to be able to replace the 3 laptops I bought the Fam in 2007 by now, but given the economy, not possible. Unless it dies completely (overheated cpu/gpu due to insufficient cooling) or another child starts College, I will have to limp along with what I have, and re-purpose from Windows to LINUX to extend hardware usage.
The only exception to this was my cell phone, now I actually have a Droid. Hard to imagine that hardware making technological improvements by leaps and bounds, for me the apps are what make it very useful for now.
Given their *standards* for security and the model that everything should be visable by everyone, this brakes the basic rules of security. I for one would never trust FB with my private info, let alone a SSO password.
I agree with Older Guy....I really don't want to be *forced* to socialize with many of my co-workers. I am a techie, and my free time is spent with my Family, they are the reason I work (well, that and boredom), and my friends. If I do socialize with any of my co-workers, it will be MY choice of who and when. Activities like bowling, golf, etc are good, but to just generally *have* to sit around an chat....no thanks. And don't even get me started on *team-building* crap......
I'd just like to take this opportunity to tip my hat to the folks that designed this rover. It was slated for a 180 day mission, and they just finished up day 2,190. That's some pretty high quality engineering that must have gone into this project, especially when you take into account it's on *another planet*, so no tech to fiddle with something that's just a bit off here or there.
No parts, no cleaning, no help at all. To top that off, it's doing all of this on Mars, which isn't really an electronics friendly environment. It crash landed on another planet from a rocket ship and worked 10x longer than it was supposed to.
Well done.
2,190 days - 180 days = 2010