Greenpeace is a very small group of people who feel they have the right to force their opinions on a much larger group of people that could easily just shoot all of them but don't because of international reaction and Greenpeace uses that inability to fight back with deadly force to their benefit.
So they are both self-righteous assholes and cowards in my book. Not much different from the Occupy Anything idiots.
And if someone doesn't like it, they can use another site else like Vimeo. I have yet to have videos that have had audio disabled on YouTube suffer the same fate on Vimeo. Or host your own web site and take control of your life.
I just wish they would stop whining about how someone who is letting you use their site for free isn't fair.....
So.. you want to eliminate the tax cuts I currently enjoy, along with lots of middle class people. Ok.. I support that as long as it's 'all or nothing'. None of this "Let's demonize a group that is a minority and take all of their money be selecting an arbitrary 'how much is too much' limit" mentality that the Obama administration and OWS seem to have.
You can't 'repeal' a court decision, although I personally don't have an issue with keeping ALL organized groups from promoting their political views, including Ben and Jerry's, Sierra Club, UAW, PETA, and Greenpeace. Good luck with that one....
And a veto of NDAA would end our military. That's just ignorant or naive. If you mean the part where the military can hold US citizens, well that's a difficult one. If a US citizen becomes a member of the Taliban, and gives over military secrets, then he should be tried for treason in a military court. But, on the other hand, blowing up a building doesn't necessarily mean someone is 'at war' with the United States. I don't know of a good way to allow one but make sure it's not over used. Maybe you can come up with a solution instead of just throwing everything out.
Oh.. I see now why you identify with the OWS, naive and ignorant statements that have no real value when applied to the real world but sound great when repeated by a bunch of sheeple over and over again. The fact is, they have not risked their lives to do jack squat, have not rebelled against the government, and basically were irrelevant about two days before they showed up. They do not deserve any comparison to protestors who risked their lives to bring about government change and should all go home to their mom's basement and get a job.
The Tea Party didn't have protests.. they had rallies. They got permits, paid for security, trash pickup, and porta-potties, as required by law, and moved on when their permits were up. While the goals weren't completely well defined (i.e. reduce spending), they didn't hold large tracts of land hostage, deny workers and consumers access to businesses, and worked to better define the goals. They worked within the system to elect officials to help put into place their goals. People joined the tea party and began to make a difference in very short order as politicians listened and took some action.
The protestors in the middle east were met with violent resistance from a government that suppressed them when they were unable to work through the system for their goals. They worked for years (decades?) to bring about change without any results, making it obvious this was their only recourse. They were able to effect change through revolution because their government could not sustain order in the face of widespread opposition TO the government.
The OWS groups, on the other hand, have no real goals that can be met to end their protest. Their stated goals can never be defined. For instance, when does profit become greed? Ending corporate influence is only possible if all groups are tossed out from impacting politics, such as unions, environmental groups, and AARP. And even then the rich will always have more access simply because they can buy more ads and travel more. Utopia is a beautiful concept, but very difficult to implement without trashing freedoms.
OWS has only been doing this for a few months, have made NO attempts to work through the existing processes, they feel free to deny access to public places and businesses to both workers and consumers, and in general are just a bunch of clueless drones who grab onto catch phrases that have little meaning. They basically have done nothing to even generate the smallest amount of sympathetic emotions among the general population, and the only change I've seen them bring about is more regulations about camping in public places. If anything, their lack of direction and willingness to follow ANY laws has resulted in people making fun of them and outright disgust with their stated goals.
So I'll agree with Time that the Tea Party shouldn't have been included. But the attempt to place the OWS groups with the middle east protestors denigrates the middle east protestors and their worthy goals.
I wrote COBOL code for 15 years, and agree 100%. I could churn out complex multi-level reports in half a day that WORKED because I had been doing it so long and had a method. My only complaint with COBOL was that it didn't support recursion or dynamic arrays. Most complaints were that you had to type a lot, but what most people didn't realize is that good data design up front allowed for the use of commands like 'move corresponding' and 'add corresponding' to make the actual program code simpler. I've noticed with modern coders some of the same tendency to make the data definitions fit the code instead of the other way around.
I now write in Java, and spend most of my days rewriting very poorly written C++ into Java. Not because C++ isn't a good language, but because the people that wrote the code had no idea how to write code, let alone C++. Overly-complex designs for simple tasks, using flags instead of try/catch blocks for error handling, and using codes (i.e. if flag = 1) instead of enumerators or constants to make it legible.
I also know that my code three years ago is nowhere as 'good' as the code I write now. It's easy to teach someone how an if..else statement works, or the difference between static and class objects. But to help them to understand principles, like when to use static or class methods or objects, they really need to write code for awhile and get a grasp on the concepts. And as I write more and more, I learn new little things. Plus the language itself advances. After about 10 years of coding in Java, I'm pretty decent at it now. But I'd say my first 2-3 years resulted in some pretty bad code, and the next 5 some that was OK, but could be improved. I still look at code I do today with a critical eye, always wondering what I could do to make it easier to write and maintain and more efficient.
I had a financial engineer come up to me a few months ago that didn't understand why he just shouldn't use static methods and objects for everything. He read the book, he knew how to write code. What was all the fuss about anyway?
I just sighed and did my best to explain to him in 15 minutes what I have learned over the last decade. I think he understood as he walked away, but his boss is not my boss, and I don't have to support his code. The rest of the financial engineers use SAS, so I probably should care since I'm sure I'll be the one to support it when he leaves....
But it's probably easier for me to fix it then than to try and beat good coding practices into him now. I've got my own schedules to keep....
100% agree. I've been in a few shops like that, and am in one now. Your brain can't hold all of the information.
But... you can deal with chunks of it, and in the process learn how things operate. Try to find the low-hanging fruit, work on them. And don't just move them, take the time to make them work they way they should with appropriate automation, error detection, automated audits and simple recovery procedures. As systems get fixed, it will become easier to tackle the monsters.
But it will take a long time. I've been at my current job for 4 years, and we are now just getting to the point of tackling the biggest mess the company has. But in those four years, operations gets fewer aborts, things that do break give better messages, and restart procedures are mostly 'rerun'. So instead of spending half my time fixing last nights mess, I can spend almost 7 hours a day actually getting work done.
One secret has been to simplify. Instead of one program doing 20 different things, we have 20 programs and use a job scheduler (a real one, not cron or Windows Task Manager) to coordinate them. For instance, we load a lot of data into the database from external sources. Programs used to load and modify in one step. Now we load the raw data into a table, and if needed process it in a later step. In some instances, we have even separated data from one wide table with the original load data plus our analytical columns into two or more tables. While somewhat inefficient, the payoff is the vendor can change their delivery methods or we can change data vendors without modifying all the downstream programs. And some queries actually run faster because they don't have to do as many I/Os reading blocks with data they don't need.
None of this was planned out. We took discrete systems, modified, ran in parallel, then replicated into existing systems if we needed to. All the while new processes used the new systems.
The cool part?? No deadlines, no conversion nightmares. A few weekends here and there when needed, but it's been mostly 45-50 hour weeks because I enjoy the work, not because someone demands it.
Here's the fear I have with 'college degree' people. How much do they really know?
I don't hire people who know how to pass tests, I hire people who know how to get the job done, are smart, and self motivated. Colleges, for the most part, turn out drones that are good at doing what they are told, and turning in programs based on the parameters their professors have given them. I need someone who thinks for themselves, and is good and understanding what is needed and turning it into code that not only get's the correct answer out, but does it efficiently, has adequate error handling and reporting, and is maintainable by the entire staff, not just them. They have to follow direction, but also be able to make suggestions with the expectation that they will be considered, but may not be accepted.
So show me you are smart, self-motivated, adaptable, and are willing to follow for awhile and understand the reasons behind why things are done they way they are instead of just assuming everyone is an idiot before making suggestions. For example, I once had some snot-nosed college kid that didn't want to use our templates, he had his own that he had developed. It didn't matter to him that the other 5 developers all knew the ones we had developed, or that he hadn't even looked at them, he just knew that his must be better than ours because he was so smart.
The interview didn't last very long after that....
I noticed that he didn't mention the untold patience of the 99% of police as the loiterers taunted them. Or how they didn't just fire into the ground like other countries do.
That's the problem with being biased, you only concentrate on one thing and ignore the rest. Where he saw the protestors winning, I just saw a bunch of losers in tents with no sense of purpose other than to be a big pain in the ass to everyone.
Impact mostly to those they claim to represent and are fighting for.
The only need for a google account is to use the app store. There is no need for it to be a 'real' account, I have a couple of 'spam' accounts I use for that very purpose. I do use gmail for my main personal account, but store all of my contacts on my phone and sync once a week to my computer (HTC Aria phone). I also use Thunderbird at my desktop to archive emails. I used to use Cox.net for my local email, and did the same thing. I can't sync contacts easily to Thunderbird, but I don't really send a lot of emails from my phone so it doesn't bother me. (I have found that most emails can wait until I get home, or only need a one or two line response otherwise.)
Anyone sending email from any device has to send it to an SMTP server unless they are running their own, so any comment about using a mail server for any single application is moot. I use Touchdown for my outlook, it used to connect my work email server, but they have since migrated to using Microsoft servers. So it is very possible to setup Android to use your own Exchange server.
In other words.. don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Stick his sorry butt in jail for the rest of his life. Or hang him. Whichever is cheaper. I have no sympathy for him and hope he rots.
He took the coward's way out, dump and run. He hid under rocks hoping no one could find him instead of standing up and being counted, bringing evidence forward through the channels to have it dealt with accordingly. He took the lazy way out, steal a bunch of data, give it to someone else, and hope something comes of it. Which it didn't. No one has brought any charges this way either, and his sorry ass is going to jail.
What a loser. He deserves everything they do to him for his actions.
I take it you didn't take statistics from an elite school. Since 'elite' schools have tougher acceptance criteria, it only makes sense their students would perform better. To my knowledge, there has never been a true 'double blind' study, where students with similar grades and performance levels in high school were compared between community colleges and 'elite' schools. Please post one if there is one.
I will admit that there are a few companies that specifically seek out and recruit from elite schools, but they will see through anyone that doesn't have talent. So, at best, going to an elite school really only provides someone a slight edge. And they will only take 'the best of the best', so unless someone is sure they are in the top 10% already, good luck with that degree really amounting to more than from a community college.
As long as someone can click on the box 'I have a degree', that's all HR will care about. The manager might be impressed by an elite degree, he might be intimidated by it, or he might turn it away because of expected salary costs. These things can work against you also.
I remember talking with a VP of programming about 10 years ago, wondering why someone with a masters in marine biology would want to be a computer programer. He didn't even interview the kid. But then again, the VP had his PhD in neural networks, and was working for a financial company and was fired after two years because he had terrible people skills. A lot of good his degree did him, he was one of the worst managers I'd ever seen. The company I worked with hired a financial wizard from some elite school with a very impressive background, and just fired him 6 months ago for the his lack of people skills and terrible work ethic.
If someone has the money to blow, there is nothing wrong with an elite school. But I sure as hell wouldn't spend a lot of money I didn't have in the hopes of making up for it later.
Or, in your case, 'I'm just an asshole' would be the appropriate translation for your post.
Sorry moron, but it does make a difference. If the sea levels are going to rise 1/2 over the next 200 years v/s 5 in the next 50. If the temps are going to go up another.25C or 3C. If storms are going to become 10% more active or 200%.
This is how things go from being a 'general idea' to a real theory. A real theory that accurately predicts allows people to make actual cost decisions over what needs to be done, instead of 'the sky is falling, all oil production must cease even though we don't have any real alternative' message sent out today.
And they have been so wrong so many times with their predictions in the past (remember global cooling from the 70s??, how about the terrible increase in category 4 and 5 hurricanes from a few years ago???) that I just don't have any confidence in their ability to know what they are talking about when making predictions, or correlating statistics with events. Or have you forgotten the timeless classic 'correlation != causation' that we were supposed to all learn in statistics.
Nope.. until they can create a +-10% forecast and stop with the scare tactics, I'm going to continue to go about my business. If only because scientists have been so wrong so many times in the past about telling us things like what foods are good for us and which are bad and have reversed course so many times on whatever this thing is called now. Heck, they can't even keep a consistent name to apply to their hypothesis.
I don't have the time to go over every scientific article and judge the merits of each, so until they can actually predict something, they can just keep working on it.
... of vague predictions by the Global warming/climate change group that can't seem to figure out exactly what is going to happen and when and produce quotes that can be used no matter what happens to the weather. Kinda like their recent hurricane predictions. Oh wait.. those didn't pan out.
Yes.. we need to decrease emissions. But until someone somewhere can start making somewhat accurate predictions, I'm not willing to toss our economy down the tubes. We learned not too long ago that wind turbines impact local climate, creating hot spots. Everything we do impacts the environment. Everything any living thing does impacts the environment, THAT is a fact.
It's been a few degrees (Fahrenheit) above normal in Phoenix this fall, and we have LOVED it. I'd take a few extra degrees in the three months of summer for some of this beautiful weather year the other 9. Some areas may become uninhabitable, but others will become more habitable. I notice the GW/CCG group never balances out the bad stuff with the good stuff, hardly an unbiased bit of reporting there.
Whether or not it is beneficial or harmful is the issue. So some guy in Bongo-Pongo has to move his house on sticks that he has to rebuild every time a hurricane comes through. Or Long Island needs to build a dike and install massive pumping systems like Holland and New Orleans as done. These are costs that can be spread out over time.
Provided that some day, the GWS/CCG folks can actually predict with accuracy when they will be needed. Until that day, I'm doing my best to cut back electrical usage, replace old appliances with more efficient ones as they age, and I even use a CFL or two. I'm even considering looking for a job within 10 miles of my house so I can at least ride a bicycle once in a while and not use as much gas.
But I'm not giving up my truck I drive less than 5,000 miles a year, and when it dies, I will buy a bigger one. Because I need it and use it and enjoy it.
If you are getting so many alerts that you are worried about waking up the person next to you, maybe you should fix the alerts. More than a couple a week is a sign of a shop that isn't doing enough to find the root analysis of problems and fix them instead of applying bandaids.
I did that many years ago (because no one else wanted to and things needed to get done) and haven't looked back. No more long, drawn out projects. No more odious project leader standing over my desk making sure I get something done on time. No more endless 'I liked that the way it was, can you move it back one pixel??' user requirement changes.
Instead, my job is to fix problems. Programs running too long, using too many resources, aborting, not playing well with others, and a host of other issues. Data loads that have changes in the incoming file spec, or a new source completely. Determining if problems are program or server or network issues, and compiling the data to support it. Things that stimulate my brain to think for itself instead of being someone's code monkey. I give out my own estimates, no more living up to somebody's idea of how long it should take to write code.
I touch multiple applications, and see many different techniques. I trouble shoot problems that have driven other people to insanity. Best of all, as things became more stable, my job became less hectic and I got fewer midnight calls. I am the lord of my own destiny, the better job I do, the less I get woken up in the middle of the night and the less overtime I have to put in.
Now, not all companies have such a position. Or, if they do, they might still be pigeon holed because of the size of the company. The company I work for isn't that way.
So the the real study would be what is the demand for apps on the current OS that aren't available for a prior OS, and a break down of the demand by phone. Other than that, the study is an Apple fanboy propaganda piece that is just like the Apple phone, overrated and not really of much value when compared to other studies.
My wife has never upgraded her HTC Aria to the current OS, while I have. Why hasn't she??? THERE WAS NO NEED TO. Jeez people, get over it. Why did I upgrade?? Because I'm a geek and wanted to. I also had a memory issue with the HTC email program, and I was hoping it would resolve it, which it did. My wife doesn't use her HTC for email. In fact, she hardly uses it for anything except text message, phone calls, and the odd games here and there. Why the hell would she want to upgrade???
Now, if this guy weren't such an obvious Apple fanboy and decided to do some real work instead of just one that shows what he wants it to show, he would track down a sample population and find out how many actually give a fuck.
The wealthy elite give money to those that already agree with them in the hopes they will get reelected. And it happens on both sides, liberal wealthy people give more money to Democrats, and conservative wealthy people give more money to Republicans. The sides are balanced out for the most part, there are both wealthy environmental PACs and business PACs that give to each side.
The current administration does seem to be finding lots of jobs and loans for people that donated to them. But I'm sure if one looks at both parties they will find such activity fairly common. If one elects a liberal to the White House, then liberals will be put into positions of influence. Is it because of the money, or simply because one tends to 'hang out' with people they agree with.
It's difficult to know which is the tail and which is the dog in these matters.
Then don't buy stuff from WalMart, as many don't. People can have far more immediate impact at the cash register than they do at the annual meetings. And it doesn't take as large a percentage, imagine what would happen if 15% of existing WalMart customers stopped shopping there because of some corporate policy.
The thinking here ignores reality, which is that all these companies really control is their stores and products, and that people are finicky and will dump one company for another anytime it suits them. Since no single company has a monopoly on any single product, companies are not free to do as they choose and employ large numbers of people in marketing and public relations for the very purpose of convincing people to continue to buy their products.
And what most anti-war propagandists fail to mention is that in Iraq and Afghanistan, civilian deaths are higher because the other side doesn't play by the Geneva convention. They live amongst the population and don't wear uniforms, making it very difficult to determine who is the bad guy and who isn't.
The group most responsible for civilian deaths in these areas are the Taliban and Al-Qaeda because of their cowardly nature to hide among women and children and not identify themselves. Allied forces live in camps and wear uniforms, making them easy targets, yet are quickly condemned by the anti-war group if they so much as think about doing anything that might possibly harm a civilian. Yet they never bring the same condemnation against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, who are the real cause of deaths among the local population.
You mean you actually sit back and do nothing but listen to this?? I think it would be great for background sounds for people that can't stand silence or white noise if someone wants to go to sleep, and I suppose it does fit into the category of 'music' since it has some form to it. But I 'listened' to it in about 30 seconds by skipping around and trying to find something of interest other than just pleasant sounds.
I think that great music, like great art, should invoke emotions. All this does is make me more receptive to anything bright and shiny that might come into view. Does 'waiting to be distracted' count as an emotion???
Because this worldwide movement by a small minority of the '99%' haven't grown up yet and realized that they only person responsible for their lack of a job or being exploited is... them. No one forced them go to college and run up huge debt, no one forced them to major in history, no one forced them to move out from mom and dad before they had a job. I know I didn't, I lived with my parents even after I had a job until I could afford my own place. My daughter did the same thing. My wife worked as a waitress for years in a crappy job to feed her kids and didn't take any government handouts.
We are also part of the 99% group, and have worked hard all of our life to try and become a 1%er. I'm tired of the endless demonization of a group of people simply because they were smarter and more motivated than others and able to work harder to get ahead... traits I thought were supposed to be important in this country. Why aren't these protestors in front of Al Gore's house, or Bill Gate's house.. they are also part of the 1% group they vilify?? Why are they using iPods and smart phones and such, when Apple, Microsoft, AT&T are also part of who they vilify?? Maybe if they talked with their wallets instead of their signs they might get something done, instead of being a bunch of hypocrites and using the very corporation's products they vilify.
They don't want campaign reform, because they would also mean Sierra Club, Green Peace, and the UAW wouldn't be able to contribute. They only want to stop those they DISAGREE with from contributing. They don't truly want free speech, they don't want the rich to have any influence at all on politics. They want to keep all the free speech for themselves.
No solutions, only whining. Maybe if just one person actually had a workable idea we might listen to them instead of wondering why the news is paying these sheeple so much attention. And they are just as much sheeple as you say I am, many of the ones I've seen on TV have no independent thoughts of their own, they are just mindlessly repeating what other people have said and when questioned on details only return blank stares.
Accuse me of being sheeple all you want, at least I have real ideas in my head that I came up with and aren't just repeating things someone has asked me to. I can actually drill down into any of these topics, unlike the naive child-like innocents in the parks.
'End Corporate Greed' == 'Set up a government agency that determines when enough is enough, take what's left over, and give it to me so I don't have to work for it'
'Stop Social Inequities' == 'I don't want to start out life with nothing like everyone else did, give me stuff at 25 so I'm equal with other people at 40'
'Stop Exploiting the poor' == 'I know I don't have any skills and went to a liberal arts college, but that's no reason to pay me minimum wage'
'End All Debt' == 'I wasn't that good at math and didn't realize how much this college thing would cost. Probably shouldn't have gone, it's obvious I wasn't that smart'
'Pay A Livable Wage' == 'I want to live in an apartment by myself and have my own car and not live in my mom's basement and ride a bike'
They are not protesting, they just want to legally steal stuff from people that have worked all their lives.
That and how Apple has a lock on their particular style of phone so when they release, all the iDrones have to rush out and get one. Meanwhile, Android has real competition with multiple vendors for the same OS with the same general software features, so there are multiple vendors releasing new phones all the time and no artificial need to get the latest and greatest.
It's amazing how the manipulation of supply and demand and the linking of software to hardware can create such a feeding frenzy for a product that was only slightly better than the prior one. And how all of the software enhancements are available on existing iPhones just by upgrading the OS (which didn't seem to go well talking with my friends, but of course no one reported that Apple story.) That is why Apple could never rise to number one in the PC or phone market, if they became a significant majority, the government would split them into separate hardware and software companies to encourage competition, and their ability to manipulate emotions and create artificial shortages would be over.
Apple didn't just get thousands of new subscribers, they just swapped out phones. No big news story here.. people swap out phones all the time when their contract expires.
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Greenpeace is a very small group of people who feel they have the right to force their opinions on a much larger group of people that could easily just shoot all of them but don't because of international reaction and Greenpeace uses that inability to fight back with deadly force to their benefit.
So they are both self-righteous assholes and cowards in my book. Not much different from the Occupy Anything idiots.
And if someone doesn't like it, they can use another site else like Vimeo. I have yet to have videos that have had audio disabled on YouTube suffer the same fate on Vimeo. Or host your own web site and take control of your life.
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I just wish they would stop whining about how someone who is letting you use their site for free isn't fair
So .. you want to eliminate the tax cuts I currently enjoy, along with lots of middle class people. Ok .. I support that as long as it's 'all or nothing'. None of this "Let's demonize a group that is a minority and take all of their money be selecting an arbitrary 'how much is too much' limit" mentality that the Obama administration and OWS seem to have.
.. I see now why you identify with the OWS, naive and ignorant statements that have no real value when applied to the real world but sound great when repeated by a bunch of sheeple over and over again. The fact is, they have not risked their lives to do jack squat, have not rebelled against the government, and basically were irrelevant about two days before they showed up. They do not deserve any comparison to protestors who risked their lives to bring about government change and should all go home to their mom's basement and get a job.
You can't 'repeal' a court decision, although I personally don't have an issue with keeping ALL organized groups from promoting their political views, including Ben and Jerry's, Sierra Club, UAW, PETA, and Greenpeace. Good luck with that one....
And a veto of NDAA would end our military. That's just ignorant or naive. If you mean the part where the military can hold US citizens, well that's a difficult one. If a US citizen becomes a member of the Taliban, and gives over military secrets, then he should be tried for treason in a military court. But, on the other hand, blowing up a building doesn't necessarily mean someone is 'at war' with the United States. I don't know of a good way to allow one but make sure it's not over used. Maybe you can come up with a solution instead of just throwing everything out.
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The Tea Party didn't have protests .. they had rallies. They got permits, paid for security, trash pickup, and porta-potties, as required by law, and moved on when their permits were up. While the goals weren't completely well defined (i.e. reduce spending), they didn't hold large tracts of land hostage, deny workers and consumers access to businesses, and worked to better define the goals. They worked within the system to elect officials to help put into place their goals. People joined the tea party and began to make a difference in very short order as politicians listened and took some action.
The protestors in the middle east were met with violent resistance from a government that suppressed them when they were unable to work through the system for their goals. They worked for years (decades?) to bring about change without any results, making it obvious this was their only recourse. They were able to effect change through revolution because their government could not sustain order in the face of widespread opposition TO the government.
The OWS groups, on the other hand, have no real goals that can be met to end their protest. Their stated goals can never be defined. For instance, when does profit become greed? Ending corporate influence is only possible if all groups are tossed out from impacting politics, such as unions, environmental groups, and AARP. And even then the rich will always have more access simply because they can buy more ads and travel more. Utopia is a beautiful concept, but very difficult to implement without trashing freedoms.
OWS has only been doing this for a few months, have made NO attempts to work through the existing processes, they feel free to deny access to public places and businesses to both workers and consumers, and in general are just a bunch of clueless drones who grab onto catch phrases that have little meaning. They basically have done nothing to even generate the smallest amount of sympathetic emotions among the general population, and the only change I've seen them bring about is more regulations about camping in public places. If anything, their lack of direction and willingness to follow ANY laws has resulted in people making fun of them and outright disgust with their stated goals.
So I'll agree with Time that the Tea Party shouldn't have been included. But the attempt to place the OWS groups with the middle east protestors denigrates the middle east protestors and their worthy goals.
I wrote COBOL code for 15 years, and agree 100%. I could churn out complex multi-level reports in half a day that WORKED because I had been doing it so long and had a method. My only complaint with COBOL was that it didn't support recursion or dynamic arrays. Most complaints were that you had to type a lot, but what most people didn't realize is that good data design up front allowed for the use of commands like 'move corresponding' and 'add corresponding' to make the actual program code simpler. I've noticed with modern coders some of the same tendency to make the data definitions fit the code instead of the other way around.
I now write in Java, and spend most of my days rewriting very poorly written C++ into Java. Not because C++ isn't a good language, but because the people that wrote the code had no idea how to write code, let alone C++. Overly-complex designs for simple tasks, using flags instead of try/catch blocks for error handling, and using codes (i.e. if flag = 1) instead of enumerators or constants to make it legible.
I also know that my code three years ago is nowhere as 'good' as the code I write now. It's easy to teach someone how an if..else statement works, or the difference between static and class objects. But to help them to understand principles, like when to use static or class methods or objects, they really need to write code for awhile and get a grasp on the concepts. And as I write more and more, I learn new little things. Plus the language itself advances. After about 10 years of coding in Java, I'm pretty decent at it now. But I'd say my first 2-3 years resulted in some pretty bad code, and the next 5 some that was OK, but could be improved. I still look at code I do today with a critical eye, always wondering what I could do to make it easier to write and maintain and more efficient.
I had a financial engineer come up to me a few months ago that didn't understand why he just shouldn't use static methods and objects for everything. He read the book, he knew how to write code. What was all the fuss about anyway?
I just sighed and did my best to explain to him in 15 minutes what I have learned over the last decade. I think he understood as he walked away, but his boss is not my boss, and I don't have to support his code. The rest of the financial engineers use SAS, so I probably should care since I'm sure I'll be the one to support it when he leaves....
But it's probably easier for me to fix it then than to try and beat good coding practices into him now. I've got my own schedules to keep....
100% agree. I've been in a few shops like that, and am in one now. Your brain can't hold all of the information.
... you can deal with chunks of it, and in the process learn how things operate. Try to find the low-hanging fruit, work on them. And don't just move them, take the time to make them work they way they should with appropriate automation, error detection, automated audits and simple recovery procedures. As systems get fixed, it will become easier to tackle the monsters.
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But it will take a long time. I've been at my current job for 4 years, and we are now just getting to the point of tackling the biggest mess the company has. But in those four years, operations gets fewer aborts, things that do break give better messages, and restart procedures are mostly 'rerun'. So instead of spending half my time fixing last nights mess, I can spend almost 7 hours a day actually getting work done.
One secret has been to simplify. Instead of one program doing 20 different things, we have 20 programs and use a job scheduler (a real one, not cron or Windows Task Manager) to coordinate them. For instance, we load a lot of data into the database from external sources. Programs used to load and modify in one step. Now we load the raw data into a table, and if needed process it in a later step. In some instances, we have even separated data from one wide table with the original load data plus our analytical columns into two or more tables. While somewhat inefficient, the payoff is the vendor can change their delivery methods or we can change data vendors without modifying all the downstream programs. And some queries actually run faster because they don't have to do as many I/Os reading blocks with data they don't need.
None of this was planned out. We took discrete systems, modified, ran in parallel, then replicated into existing systems if we needed to. All the while new processes used the new systems.
The cool part?? No deadlines, no conversion nightmares. A few weekends here and there when needed, but it's been mostly 45-50 hour weeks because I enjoy the work, not because someone demands it.
Here's the fear I have with 'college degree' people. How much do they really know?
I don't hire people who know how to pass tests, I hire people who know how to get the job done, are smart, and self motivated. Colleges, for the most part, turn out drones that are good at doing what they are told, and turning in programs based on the parameters their professors have given them. I need someone who thinks for themselves, and is good and understanding what is needed and turning it into code that not only get's the correct answer out, but does it efficiently, has adequate error handling and reporting, and is maintainable by the entire staff, not just them. They have to follow direction, but also be able to make suggestions with the expectation that they will be considered, but may not be accepted.
So show me you are smart, self-motivated, adaptable, and are willing to follow for awhile and understand the reasons behind why things are done they way they are instead of just assuming everyone is an idiot before making suggestions. For example, I once had some snot-nosed college kid that didn't want to use our templates, he had his own that he had developed. It didn't matter to him that the other 5 developers all knew the ones we had developed, or that he hadn't even looked at them, he just knew that his must be better than ours because he was so smart.
The interview didn't last very long after that....
I noticed that he didn't mention the untold patience of the 99% of police as the loiterers taunted them. Or how they didn't just fire into the ground like other countries do.
That's the problem with being biased, you only concentrate on one thing and ignore the rest. Where he saw the protestors winning, I just saw a bunch of losers in tents with no sense of purpose other than to be a big pain in the ass to everyone.
Impact mostly to those they claim to represent and are fighting for.
The only need for a google account is to use the app store. There is no need for it to be a 'real' account, I have a couple of 'spam' accounts I use for that very purpose. I do use gmail for my main personal account, but store all of my contacts on my phone and sync once a week to my computer (HTC Aria phone). I also use Thunderbird at my desktop to archive emails. I used to use Cox.net for my local email, and did the same thing. I can't sync contacts easily to Thunderbird, but I don't really send a lot of emails from my phone so it doesn't bother me. (I have found that most emails can wait until I get home, or only need a one or two line response otherwise.)
Anyone sending email from any device has to send it to an SMTP server unless they are running their own, so any comment about using a mail server for any single application is moot. I use Touchdown for my outlook, it used to connect my work email server, but they have since migrated to using Microsoft servers. So it is very possible to setup Android to use your own Exchange server.
In other words .. don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Stick his sorry butt in jail for the rest of his life. Or hang him. Whichever is cheaper. I have no sympathy for him and hope he rots.
He took the coward's way out, dump and run. He hid under rocks hoping no one could find him instead of standing up and being counted, bringing evidence forward through the channels to have it dealt with accordingly. He took the lazy way out, steal a bunch of data, give it to someone else, and hope something comes of it. Which it didn't. No one has brought any charges this way either, and his sorry ass is going to jail.
What a loser. He deserves everything they do to him for his actions.
I take it you didn't take statistics from an elite school. Since 'elite' schools have tougher acceptance criteria, it only makes sense their students would perform better. To my knowledge, there has never been a true 'double blind' study, where students with similar grades and performance levels in high school were compared between community colleges and 'elite' schools. Please post one if there is one.
I will admit that there are a few companies that specifically seek out and recruit from elite schools, but they will see through anyone that doesn't have talent. So, at best, going to an elite school really only provides someone a slight edge. And they will only take 'the best of the best', so unless someone is sure they are in the top 10% already, good luck with that degree really amounting to more than from a community college.
As long as someone can click on the box 'I have a degree', that's all HR will care about. The manager might be impressed by an elite degree, he might be intimidated by it, or he might turn it away because of expected salary costs. These things can work against you also.
I remember talking with a VP of programming about 10 years ago, wondering why someone with a masters in marine biology would want to be a computer programer. He didn't even interview the kid. But then again, the VP had his PhD in neural networks, and was working for a financial company and was fired after two years because he had terrible people skills. A lot of good his degree did him, he was one of the worst managers I'd ever seen. The company I worked with hired a financial wizard from some elite school with a very impressive background, and just fired him 6 months ago for the his lack of people skills and terrible work ethic.
If someone has the money to blow, there is nothing wrong with an elite school. But I sure as hell wouldn't spend a lot of money I didn't have in the hopes of making up for it later.
Or, in your case, 'I'm just an asshole' would be the appropriate translation for your post.
.25C or 3C. If storms are going to become 10% more active or 200%.
.. until they can create a +-10% forecast and stop with the scare tactics, I'm going to continue to go about my business. If only because scientists have been so wrong so many times in the past about telling us things like what foods are good for us and which are bad and have reversed course so many times on whatever this thing is called now. Heck, they can't even keep a consistent name to apply to their hypothesis.
Sorry moron, but it does make a difference. If the sea levels are going to rise 1/2 over the next 200 years v/s 5 in the next 50. If the temps are going to go up another
This is how things go from being a 'general idea' to a real theory. A real theory that accurately predicts allows people to make actual cost decisions over what needs to be done, instead of 'the sky is falling, all oil production must cease even though we don't have any real alternative' message sent out today.
And they have been so wrong so many times with their predictions in the past (remember global cooling from the 70s??, how about the terrible increase in category 4 and 5 hurricanes from a few years ago???) that I just don't have any confidence in their ability to know what they are talking about when making predictions, or correlating statistics with events. Or have you forgotten the timeless classic 'correlation != causation' that we were supposed to all learn in statistics.
Nope
I don't have the time to go over every scientific article and judge the merits of each, so until they can actually predict something, they can just keep working on it.
... of vague predictions by the Global warming/climate change group that can't seem to figure out exactly what is going to happen and when and produce quotes that can be used no matter what happens to the weather. Kinda like their recent hurricane predictions. Oh wait .. those didn't pan out.
.. we need to decrease emissions. But until someone somewhere can start making somewhat accurate predictions, I'm not willing to toss our economy down the tubes. We learned not too long ago that wind turbines impact local climate, creating hot spots. Everything we do impacts the environment. Everything any living thing does impacts the environment, THAT is a fact.
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It's been a few degrees (Fahrenheit) above normal in Phoenix this fall, and we have LOVED it. I'd take a few extra degrees in the three months of summer for some of this beautiful weather year the other 9. Some areas may become uninhabitable, but others will become more habitable. I notice the GW/CCG group never balances out the bad stuff with the good stuff, hardly an unbiased bit of reporting there.
Whether or not it is beneficial or harmful is the issue. So some guy in Bongo-Pongo has to move his house on sticks that he has to rebuild every time a hurricane comes through. Or Long Island needs to build a dike and install massive pumping systems like Holland and New Orleans as done. These are costs that can be spread out over time.
Provided that some day, the GWS/CCG folks can actually predict with accuracy when they will be needed. Until that day, I'm doing my best to cut back electrical usage, replace old appliances with more efficient ones as they age, and I even use a CFL or two. I'm even considering looking for a job within 10 miles of my house so I can at least ride a bicycle once in a while and not use as much gas.
But I'm not giving up my truck I drive less than 5,000 miles a year, and when it dies, I will buy a bigger one. Because I need it and use it and enjoy it.
If you are getting so many alerts that you are worried about waking up the person next to you, maybe you should fix the alerts. More than a couple a week is a sign of a shop that isn't doing enough to find the root analysis of problems and fix them instead of applying bandaids.
I did that many years ago (because no one else wanted to and things needed to get done) and haven't looked back. No more long, drawn out projects. No more odious project leader standing over my desk making sure I get something done on time. No more endless 'I liked that the way it was, can you move it back one pixel??' user requirement changes.
Instead, my job is to fix problems. Programs running too long, using too many resources, aborting, not playing well with others, and a host of other issues. Data loads that have changes in the incoming file spec, or a new source completely. Determining if problems are program or server or network issues, and compiling the data to support it. Things that stimulate my brain to think for itself instead of being someone's code monkey. I give out my own estimates, no more living up to somebody's idea of how long it should take to write code.
I touch multiple applications, and see many different techniques. I trouble shoot problems that have driven other people to insanity. Best of all, as things became more stable, my job became less hectic and I got fewer midnight calls. I am the lord of my own destiny, the better job I do, the less I get woken up in the middle of the night and the less overtime I have to put in.
Now, not all companies have such a position. Or, if they do, they might still be pigeon holed because of the size of the company. The company I work for isn't that way.
... ten people were caught jay walking in Phoenix. Sorry about the Assange story, we needed a filler.
So the the real study would be what is the demand for apps on the current OS that aren't available for a prior OS, and a break down of the demand by phone. Other than that, the study is an Apple fanboy propaganda piece that is just like the Apple phone, overrated and not really of much value when compared to other studies.
My wife has never upgraded her HTC Aria to the current OS, while I have. Why hasn't she??? THERE WAS NO NEED TO. Jeez people, get over it. Why did I upgrade?? Because I'm a geek and wanted to. I also had a memory issue with the HTC email program, and I was hoping it would resolve it, which it did. My wife doesn't use her HTC for email. In fact, she hardly uses it for anything except text message, phone calls, and the odd games here and there. Why the hell would she want to upgrade???
Now, if this guy weren't such an obvious Apple fanboy and decided to do some real work instead of just one that shows what he wants it to show, he would track down a sample population and find out how many actually give a fuck.
The wealthy elite give money to those that already agree with them in the hopes they will get reelected. And it happens on both sides, liberal wealthy people give more money to Democrats, and conservative wealthy people give more money to Republicans. The sides are balanced out for the most part, there are both wealthy environmental PACs and business PACs that give to each side.
The current administration does seem to be finding lots of jobs and loans for people that donated to them. But I'm sure if one looks at both parties they will find such activity fairly common. If one elects a liberal to the White House, then liberals will be put into positions of influence. Is it because of the money, or simply because one tends to 'hang out' with people they agree with.
It's difficult to know which is the tail and which is the dog in these matters.
Then don't buy stuff from WalMart, as many don't. People can have far more immediate impact at the cash register than they do at the annual meetings. And it doesn't take as large a percentage, imagine what would happen if 15% of existing WalMart customers stopped shopping there because of some corporate policy.
The thinking here ignores reality, which is that all these companies really control is their stores and products, and that people are finicky and will dump one company for another anytime it suits them. Since no single company has a monopoly on any single product, companies are not free to do as they choose and employ large numbers of people in marketing and public relations for the very purpose of convincing people to continue to buy their products.
And what most anti-war propagandists fail to mention is that in Iraq and Afghanistan, civilian deaths are higher because the other side doesn't play by the Geneva convention. They live amongst the population and don't wear uniforms, making it very difficult to determine who is the bad guy and who isn't.
The group most responsible for civilian deaths in these areas are the Taliban and Al-Qaeda because of their cowardly nature to hide among women and children and not identify themselves. Allied forces live in camps and wear uniforms, making them easy targets, yet are quickly condemned by the anti-war group if they so much as think about doing anything that might possibly harm a civilian. Yet they never bring the same condemnation against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, who are the real cause of deaths among the local population.
You mean you actually sit back and do nothing but listen to this?? I think it would be great for background sounds for people that can't stand silence or white noise if someone wants to go to sleep, and I suppose it does fit into the category of 'music' since it has some form to it. But I 'listened' to it in about 30 seconds by skipping around and trying to find something of interest other than just pleasant sounds.
I think that great music, like great art, should invoke emotions. All this does is make me more receptive to anything bright and shiny that might come into view. Does 'waiting to be distracted' count as an emotion???
Because this worldwide movement by a small minority of the '99%' haven't grown up yet and realized that they only person responsible for their lack of a job or being exploited is ... them. No one forced them go to college and run up huge debt, no one forced them to major in history, no one forced them to move out from mom and dad before they had a job. I know I didn't, I lived with my parents even after I had a job until I could afford my own place. My daughter did the same thing. My wife worked as a waitress for years in a crappy job to feed her kids and didn't take any government handouts.
... traits I thought were supposed to be important in this country. Why aren't these protestors in front of Al Gore's house, or Bill Gate's house .. they are also part of the 1% group they vilify?? Why are they using iPods and smart phones and such, when Apple, Microsoft, AT&T are also part of who they vilify?? Maybe if they talked with their wallets instead of their signs they might get something done, instead of being a bunch of hypocrites and using the very corporation's products they vilify.
We are also part of the 99% group, and have worked hard all of our life to try and become a 1%er. I'm tired of the endless demonization of a group of people simply because they were smarter and more motivated than others and able to work harder to get ahead
They don't want campaign reform, because they would also mean Sierra Club, Green Peace, and the UAW wouldn't be able to contribute. They only want to stop those they DISAGREE with from contributing. They don't truly want free speech, they don't want the rich to have any influence at all on politics. They want to keep all the free speech for themselves.
No solutions, only whining. Maybe if just one person actually had a workable idea we might listen to them instead of wondering why the news is paying these sheeple so much attention. And they are just as much sheeple as you say I am, many of the ones I've seen on TV have no independent thoughts of their own, they are just mindlessly repeating what other people have said and when questioned on details only return blank stares.
Accuse me of being sheeple all you want, at least I have real ideas in my head that I came up with and aren't just repeating things someone has asked me to. I can actually drill down into any of these topics, unlike the naive child-like innocents in the parks.
'End Corporate Greed' == 'Set up a government agency that determines when enough is enough, take what's left over, and give it to me so I don't have to work for it'
'Stop Social Inequities' == 'I don't want to start out life with nothing like everyone else did, give me stuff at 25 so I'm equal with other people at 40'
'Stop Exploiting the poor' == 'I know I don't have any skills and went to a liberal arts college, but that's no reason to pay me minimum wage'
'End All Debt' == 'I wasn't that good at math and didn't realize how much this college thing would cost. Probably shouldn't have gone, it's obvious I wasn't that smart'
'Pay A Livable Wage' == 'I want to live in an apartment by myself and have my own car and not live in my mom's basement and ride a bike'
They are not protesting, they just want to legally steal stuff from people that have worked all their lives.
That and how Apple has a lock on their particular style of phone so when they release, all the iDrones have to rush out and get one. Meanwhile, Android has real competition with multiple vendors for the same OS with the same general software features, so there are multiple vendors releasing new phones all the time and no artificial need to get the latest and greatest.
.. people swap out phones all the time when their contract expires.
It's amazing how the manipulation of supply and demand and the linking of software to hardware can create such a feeding frenzy for a product that was only slightly better than the prior one. And how all of the software enhancements are available on existing iPhones just by upgrading the OS (which didn't seem to go well talking with my friends, but of course no one reported that Apple story.) That is why Apple could never rise to number one in the PC or phone market, if they became a significant majority, the government would split them into separate hardware and software companies to encourage competition, and their ability to manipulate emotions and create artificial shortages would be over.
Apple didn't just get thousands of new subscribers, they just swapped out phones. No big news story here