No, it was troubling ten years ago when I was watching software engineers being shown the door at Lexmark while their H1B replacements were taking their place before the chairs had a chance to get cold. I lasted another 4 years before my position met the same fate.
I commute about a thousand miles a week, mostly rural thank goodness and I still enjoy driving. Still work on my own cars too. Robot cars? No thanks.
But for the other screwball drivers out there who seem to have the attention span of a fruit fly, I hope they all adopt the system, and soon. From what I've observed over the past several years, it would seem most cars are already driverless.
Bull. The kids in Cebu who got our jobs at Lexmark (Lexington, KY campus) not only got sub-par wages but also got paid in rice. We all saw the material when it was forwarded to us by mistake the last week we were there. The whole H1B Visa program is rotten to the core.
Especially if it was among the first real programming languages you learned, and you can still remember what COBOL stands for without looking it up (guilty)!
I always thought that Elder Scrolls IV / Oblivion would make a good movie. Classic good vs. evil struggle were not everyone is who they seem and a world with some rich history.
I used to test software for a living, and our team was pretty darn good at it. We took our work seriously, and personally. If something was missed, it made us all look bad. So we did our damnedest to be the best. Part of our work also involved finding bugs missed by overseas testers. And there were always plenty. Too many in fact. It was a constant battle. Then one day we learned that our team had been off-shored... to the same group of folks that we used to have to constantly keep an eye out for.
St. Martin's Press has done this sort of thing before, recalling 70,000 copies of the Bush book Fortunate Son after the author's credibility was questioned. This was after the book had reached the NY Times bestseller list and even though the validity of the book's contents were never challenged, legally or otherwise.
I made a follow up video last year and used Stevie Ray Vaughan's Pride And Joy as the soundtrack for the slideshow. It's got the same notice, though SONY owns the rights to that one and they've got an ad on it as well.
I wonder if has anything to do with the actual video content and popularity.
I've got a video up right now (over 21,000 views) consisting of a series of photos of an antique car that I'm restoring accompanied by a complete U2 song. Total run time is over 3 minutes. There is a notation under a copyright information button that states...
Your video, Xxxxxxxx, may include content that is owned or licensed by these content owners:
Content owner: UMG Type: Audio content
What should I do?
No action is required on your part. Your video is still available worldwide. In some cases ads may appear next to your video.
Around here, landlines blow chunks. The physical plant is well over 40 years old and hasn't been maintained properly since AT&T was allowed to buy out Bellsouth a decade or so ago. My line was so noisy I couldn't even use it for dial-up, yet after 8 years they still couldn't (or didn't want to) find the issue. That didn't stop them from continually raising our rates tho. I pulled the plug on them two years ago. IMO landlines are obsolete, and just another monthly bill that gives me a headache. Save your money and put it to better use (like a cell phone antenna for example).
The only electronic bit in my '63 Valiant is the radio. The transmission is push button, the brakes manual and best of all - the accelerator is connected to the carburetor via two spring loaded steel shafts.
I just make sure the springs are in good shape otherwise it's worry free as can be.
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No, it was troubling ten years ago when I was watching software engineers being shown the door at Lexmark while their H1B replacements were taking their place before the chairs had a chance to get cold. I lasted another 4 years before my position met the same fate.
Yup. Just another reason why I still use PCs at home and protect that browsing with tools like Noscript and Flashblock.
Is that why the US is already dead last when it comes to bandwidth and download speeds?
300 baud, acoustic coupler and programs stored and retrieved from cassette tape!
A-freakin-men to that.
Suffering from that very issue as we speak with a major software update due for rollout by the end of Feb. Argh.
I commute about a thousand miles a week, mostly rural thank goodness and I still enjoy driving. Still work on my own cars too. Robot cars? No thanks.
But for the other screwball drivers out there who seem to have the attention span of a fruit fly, I hope they all adopt the system, and soon. From what I've observed over the past several years, it would seem most cars are already driverless.
A-freakin-men. And I've been commuting 1000 miles a week for years, accident free. I don't need a f*cking computer to drive my car.
Commuting 200 miles a day, I'd have to say at least 25% of cars I see on the roads around here are already driverless.
That should be "kids from Cebu".
Bull. The kids in Cebu who got our jobs at Lexmark (Lexington, KY campus) not only got sub-par wages but also got paid in rice. We all saw the material when it was forwarded to us by mistake the last week we were there. The whole H1B Visa program is rotten to the core.
Corporations committing criminal acts in order to make a profit. No wonder sensible folks don't like them.
And your point was...?
My thoughts exactly. Mod parent up.
Hell, I still remember when AMC used to show actual classic movies. Without commercials. No more.
Especially if it was among the first real programming languages you learned, and you can still remember what COBOL stands for without looking it up (guilty)!
I always thought that Elder Scrolls IV / Oblivion would make a good movie. Classic good vs. evil struggle were not everyone is who they seem and a world with some rich history.
One person's story:
I used to test software for a living, and our team was pretty darn good at it. We took our work seriously, and personally. If something was missed, it made us all look bad. So we did our damnedest to be the best. Part of our work also involved finding bugs missed by overseas testers. And there were always plenty. Too many in fact. It was a constant battle. Then one day we learned that our team had been off-shored... to the same group of folks that we used to have to constantly keep an eye out for.
Take from that what you will.
Seeing is believing. I couldn't even get AT&T (formerly Bellsouth) to provide me with POTS that wasn't noisy and useless.
St. Martin's Press has done this sort of thing before, recalling 70,000 copies of the Bush book Fortunate Son after the author's credibility was questioned. This was after the book had reached the NY Times bestseller list and even though the validity of the book's contents were never challenged, legally or otherwise.
I'm gonna have to start hoarding good old fashioned light bulbs to sell after they've stopped making them. And to keep my antique lamps happy.
Hey, thanks for the link, I'm checking it out now. I prefer to support independent artists and small studios.
I made a follow up video last year and used Stevie Ray Vaughan's Pride And Joy as the soundtrack for the slideshow. It's got the same notice, though SONY owns the rights to that one and they've got an ad on it as well.
I wonder if has anything to do with the actual video content and popularity.
I've got a video up right now (over 21,000 views) consisting of a series of photos of an antique car that I'm restoring accompanied by a complete U2 song. Total run time is over 3 minutes. There is a notation under a copyright information button that states...
Your video, Xxxxxxxx, may include content that is owned or licensed by these content owners:
Content owner: UMG Type: Audio content
What should I do?
No action is required on your part. Your video is still available worldwide. In some cases ads may appear next to your video.
The video's been online for over two years.
Around here, landlines blow chunks. The physical plant is well over 40 years old and hasn't been maintained properly since AT&T was allowed to buy out Bellsouth a decade or so ago. My line was so noisy I couldn't even use it for dial-up, yet after 8 years they still couldn't (or didn't want to) find the issue. That didn't stop them from continually raising our rates tho. I pulled the plug on them two years ago. IMO landlines are obsolete, and just another monthly bill that gives me a headache. Save your money and put it to better use (like a cell phone antenna for example).
Exactly. A person shouldn't have to tolerate so much bullshit just to play a game.
The only electronic bit in my '63 Valiant is the radio. The transmission is push button, the brakes manual and best of all - the accelerator is connected to the carburetor via two spring loaded steel shafts. I just make sure the springs are in good shape otherwise it's worry free as can be.