And that's why we only have PCs in our house, I get to build my own that are upgradable and easily maintained, and never have any problems. Or, if I wanted to, I could just go out and select from hundreds of different models with a host of options, selecting one that meets my needs best. Apple strangles their market and artificially inflates their price(profits) by keeping choice to a minimum and refusing to license the OS to run on non-Apple hardware. It's a good thing they don't have a larger market share, or the government would be screaming anti-competitive behavior. Same is true of their phone.
I don't suggest they don't have the right to do it. But look at all of the different options available for Android, then look at Apple. Heck.. it doesn't even have 4G yet. Sure, you can use video as long as there is WiFi close by and the person you are talking to also has an Apple. Meanwhile, Android is open and connecting to everyone who isn't an iDrone because they have more choices and Apple products just don't have the edge. And THAT is why they don't have market share.
Really?? Intuitive?? Dragging a CD to the trash can to eject is intuitive?? Spinning a jog wheel (if you've never seen one before) is intuitive?? Then tell me why my wife, after receiving a nice 'intuitive' iPod, gave it away and went back to her Creative 'brick' player because she could figure it out better, and preferred the software that came with it?? (Why is it that iTunes still doesn't have duplicate song detection???) I have friends that have had the sad job to service 'intuitive' Apple computers for upgrades and such.. they are anything but intuitive except to people that use them.
Get real... the mouse, windows, MP3 players, gestures, and dozens of other things Apple gets credit for were already done before. Everything they did has been INCREMENTAL changes, not evolutionary changes. What Jobs did was make it 'cool' by making it sleek, integrating better, raising the price, and strangling the supply. Why can't I just buy Apple OS and load it onto any PC?? Because the Apple license forbids it. Why can't anyone just build an Apple from scratch, they are just PCs. Because Apple license forbids running their OS on anything but Apple products. Why can't I load any program onto an iPhone??? Because Apple forbids it.
Welcome Comrade to the Union of Socialist Apple, where they tell YOU what you need for requirements. Any color, as long as it's black or white. And this shape. And you don't really need a phone with a keyboard.
As for using voice to control a phone?? Nope, not interested. I have no desire to 'talk' to my phone to send a text message, that is just about the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. I might as well just CALL THE PERSON! Why would I want to control a map or browser (down, down, left, left, magnify, up... no, not magnify up, scroll up), when my thumb is much better at flicking it around. I already have voice on my Android, and have found it takes more time to use it than to type. Maybe people just need to learn how to setup their phones so they are more efficient.
Thanks for not pointing to the actual blog in the original article. So what they are really blogging is their ability to move an entire DATA CENTER without having to send people to do it. Other than.. you know.. install the hardware to start with.
Wow... we were doing this 10 years ago before virtual systems were commonplace, 'computers on a card' where just coming out. Data center was 90 miles away. All monitoring and managing was done remotely. The only time we ever went to physical data center was if a physical piece of hardware had to be swapped out. Multiple IP addresses were configured per server so any single server one one tier could act as a fail over for another one on the same tier. We used firewalls to automate failovers, hardware failures were too infrequent to spend money on other methods. We could rebuild Sun servers in 10 minutes from saved images. All software updates were scripted and automated. A separate maintenance network was maintained. Logins were not allowed except on the maintenance network, and all ports where shutdown except for ssh. A remote serial interface provided hard-console access to each machine if the networks to a system wasn't available.
My current job is mostly internal software, no software is sold (it's mostly data sources that we sell). We don't have testing tools except for some SQL scripts for parallel testing comparisons. Don't really need them either since a parallel test run for a few weeks against production pretty well tests everything (at least in our environment.) And since there are only two developers (the other is my boss), we don't really do much code review, although we do have 'what do you think about this' sessions quite a bit. We use VSS for production (because we always have), and subversion for development source control since Subversion integrates with NetBeans and we don't really have a need to merge code since we never work on the same code sets at the same time. Developers have full access to production, and can put code into place at any time without any restrictions. But since the two of us have over 25 years experience apiece, we know better than to do so during production periods and without adequate testing. I tend to script out database changes so I can make sure what changes in production is what I actually did in dev. No QC system at all, code moves straight from the dev system to production. No long, drawn out design sessions, most design work is done as we code after a high-level 'here is what I think we should do' session. Kinda waterfall like, write some code, get some results, write more code. Takes forever to get anything done because priorities are always shifting.
In a prior company with more outward facing software, we used more automated tools and actually had a QC staff to use them. We used CVS for version control, since there was more of a need of a pure lock/check-in type system. Larger development staff of varying skills, system admins created tar balls and scripts to install code into QC and production. Code was moved to a staging area, then Unison was used to sync to production servers. Developers were not allowed access to any production system. Much more structured with actual design specs and sign offs. Took forever to get anything done because of all the BS that we had to go through.
Both methods worked fine and produced good quality, repeatable results. I prefer the current environment to work in, but the more structured environment is required for larger shops. And the bigger the shop, the more structure that seems to be needed to keep conflicts at a minimum.
And sometimes, people will just produce whatever they get paid the most. I think that is one of the points that was being made, dramatic photos sell and photographers will stage them to make a buck.
That is a far cry from communicate one's understanding of a situation. I agree with your assessment that photographers and journalists can only report on what they understand to be the truth. But it appears that the truth isn't even being shown here, some people are justifying their existence at a non-event by creating photographs that sell. This isn't about a personal point of view, it's about creating a viewpoint that isn't even real.
Bravo to Ruben Salvadori for bringing a more accurate representation of was really going on to the public.
Did you even read what I posted?? She lived with me, she didn't need rent. She had a job, I didn't pay her bills. It took me 25 years to get to 100K, my daughter started as a dog bather and is well on her way to being able to run her own business. She stands a good chance of being able to surpass my income someday.
Only the unmotivated and lazy don't know how to start at the bottom and work their way up. Those opportunities still exist, I've seen them at companies I have worked for. But it was the smart, self-motivated people that did it.
And if someone isn't smart or self-motivated, then they earn what they deserve to earn and need to face up to it.
What these kids want is things given to them, it's not quite the same thing. Most kids growing up don't graduate from high school and then immediately move out. Our kids did not 'depend' on their parents helping out. Both starting going to school without parental help using savings plus I gave my daughter half of the child support I was paying for one semester before she dropped out for awhile. When she went back, ASU had raised their tuition 100% in a little over 7 years. My 'helping out' was only a few grand, no where close to the total amount. I have no idea what his parents have done, but I know he had far more in savings than my daughter did and makes a fair wage as a cart race car instructor.
'Offering' to help is not the same thing as 'depending'. My daughter and I had an understanding, as long as she either had a job or went to school, she could live at home. It doesn't really cost much when your child has a job and pays for all of their expenses to let them live in a room, maybe $20/month for water and electricity. She had her own car (new, I might add) and rarely ate at home at first because I was a single dad and not big on cooking.
Sorry you had parental issues and your parents didn't 'offer' to help you. I only assume that based on the vitriol you are spewing.
Just doing a little math and public numbers.. assuming the US has a population of about 310M, then 3.1M people would be 1% (since I don't know if it's adults or adults and kids, they are using the 1% nomenclature for, let's just start someplace.)
According to Wikipedia, the total net worth in the US is $55T. That means that if 1% of the population (3.1M) have 90% of wealth, then they have about $50T or about 16M/person, and the rest of us (the 99%) have $17K per person. Now.,, this is WEALTH, not income. This is stuff people own. (I'll ignore the fact for now that the US has about 25% of the worlds wealth, even though we only have less than 10% of the population. Because if the protestors stopped to consider that, they might realize the hypocrisy and greed of what they are talking about.)
I'm 51 and my wife and I are above this 10% number (that is $17K * 2 or $34K in assets) when I take into account the equity in my home ($0), the vehicles we own, misc. stuff in the house, and our IRAs.
Thirty years ago, I was waaayyy below this number, like at ZERO wealth. Imagine that, as a young man just starting out I didn't have jack shit. Probably didn't even hit the 10% number until I was almost 40.
So.. all of you kids out there who don't own crap.. get over it. Get a job, start building income, and someday you will own part of that 10%. Probably not until you are in your 30s or later. But I started out as an office clerk, worked decent jobs, took advantage of opportunity, and now make close to $100K/year without going to college.
And don't tell me that opportunity doesn't exist today. My 24 year old daughter and her husband were able to save up the 20% down for a house living at home with their parents while doing this thing called 'working' and 'saving'. She started as a dog bather at Pet Smart at 18, took advantage of their free dog grooming training, and now makes a decent income as an independent dog groomer. These two are married and own a home with a mortgage cheaper than a new car payment, and don't quite have $34K in the bank together, but they are getting close. Oh.. they also both go to school full time, she works and he gets a stipend as a grad student. Since they waited until they own a home and don't live on campus, they save thousands. And their college costs are low enough that their parents can help out a bit (about half) without going into debt themselves.
Put your priorities in order and stop depending on other people to help you out. If you can't find a job, it's because people don't want YOU. It's YOUR fault, not theirs or society's or the 1% group. My wife has been searching for a full time job for 6 months, but you don't see us out there asking for help. We did this thing called 'budgeting' and 'doing without'.
These may be a difficult concepts for some of you young kids to grasp. But it's obvious you haven't learned how to wipe your bottoms, give it some time and you might learn how to do these things too.
Like with all things, it depends. I was loyal to one company, and after 7 years they dumped me without warning. No good raises, seems that 'if we give you a raise, then we can't give other people as much' was a common excuse.
A few years later, I started to work for another company with a great CEO and CTO that I got to know pretty well. Eleven years later and three companies, they were both let go after a buy-out, and I also parted ways since their new interests didn't interest me.
How did I know I could stay loyal?? They paid me more than I could get elsewhere because they didn't want me to leave. They gave me a lot of freedom to get things done.
My new boss and I have an agreement, she will never be surprised by my coming into her office and telling her I'm leaving. I've always followed the rule that I make sure the company I'm with knows that I'm expecting something more out of my job so they have an opportunity to correct things. If they don't address things, then they must not care if I stick around that much.
A couple of weeks ago, she and I had a conversation that went something like this... "I'm finding it difficult to not start looking for a new job". We talked a bit about the company and other things, and a few days later I told her I decided that the 'three year itch' was gone and to not worry.
My boss is unique, I wouldn't recommend that with everyone. But if your boss isn't like that, why are even thinking about staying???
I still buy tunes off of Napster. No DRM and reasonably priced. And no monthly fee to do it. There may be better options out there for some, but it has always worked for me so I haven't bothered looking.
I'm tired of cowards standing behind such statements, these barbarians knowingly and purposefully target civilians with no other reason than to cause terror and disruption. They do not even pretend to follow Geneva Convention accords, and cowardly use with women and children as human shields. They don't wear uniforms so they can be recognized as enemy combatants, putting even more innocents at risk.
They have publicly stated that they are trying to bring about the downfall of this country. If that's not a declaration of war, I don't know what is.
Blast the lot of them, no matter where they stand.
That has always been my guess because when this happens, Firefox itself doesn't use any CPU time and overall CPU utilization doesn't increase. But since I can't do anything about it I just restart it when it gets that way. I was trying to point out that on my machine, I do care how much memory Firefox uses because it does appear to have a memory problem that affects performance.
I can only speak to my own experience, but when FireFox gets up around 800MB on my 4GB machine, it starts to become non-responsive sporadically. It's been this way for some time now, and I've hoped that every new version would fix it.
I have a Zune, it's a POS. I will never, ever buy one again.You can't delete items from the device without it being connected to the computer. You can't create or modify playlists on the device. You can't shuffle playlists. The stupid wheel is too sensitive for my fat hands, it often changes the selection when I press down. The output is barely loud enough for use on my motorcycle (I use speakers in my helmet, it's legal and I can hear traffic around me.) Battery goes completely dead if you don't use it for awhile, even if you turn it 'off'. There is no way to load it except through the software, which wouldn't run for months, it would just startup and fail. Worked fine on another computer in the house. I tried all the online solutions, and the only fix was when I loaded Windows 7 and wiped the OS.
That's all I can think of in 30 seconds, I'm sure there are more.
They (environmentalists) are 'stupid' (your word, not mine) because they fail to take into account adaptability, and instead of expending energy to adapt, they want to spend energy to stop change. You must be an environmentalist since you appear to have been stupid enough to miss that.
And what could possibly go wrong with dumping tons of sulphates into the atmosphere, and dropping the temperature 2C. Hmmm...ice caps and glaciers reforming, sea levels dropping, existing ports becoming useless, acid rain....
Everything every animal does impacts the environment around it. I have yet to meet anyone that is in favor of dumping huge amounts of CO2 into the environment. Instead, they choose to discuss more economically viable means of reducing overall pollutants and reducing energy consumption without bankrupting large parts of the nations with the highest standards of living. It's the 'stupid' environmentalists that are willing to forcibly take from others to so guy in BongoBongo doesn't have to move his stick house. Or those stupid enough to build on barrier islands and other low-lying areas already threatened by hurricanes don't have to move or build dikes. Environmentalists who don't want farmers to have to move their fields or switch to irrigation methods or other crops.
Nope... environmentalists like this believe in the phrase "it's always been that way, why change".
In my experience, it's always been far easier to adapt to change than to keep change from happening. Sane policies reduced smog in LA and keep rivers from catching on fire, we didn't eliminate cars and plastics to do it.
So the question is, do we spend billions and billions of dollars and impact everyone on the planet, or do we spend billions and billions of dollars to move/protect those in low lying areas.
I vote that we don't impact everyone. That people who live in stick houses can be moved. And that since this isn't going to happen tomorrow, places in low lying areas can start to prepare for it now. And that there are also benefits from global warming that no one in the climate-police group seem to be willing to share so we can have an honest discussion.
In the mean time, I personally have installed high-efficiency appliances and am more mindful of power usage because I CHOOSE to do it because it saves me money. I resent the government telling me I have to because some native in far off BongoBongo might have to move his house made of sticks and palm fronds. Or because some moron decided it was a good idea to build a house on the beach or barrier island where even today hurricanes and such tend to be threats to them.
And can someone shut Al Gore up?? He also falls into the list of non-scientific people who parrot only the information he chooses to parrot.
... Google. Or Yahoo. Or some other search engine. Because all you are going to get here are a bunch of disconnected and contradicting suggestions and will still have to look stuff up yourself to figure out what you want to do.
Stop being so damn lazy and expecting other people to do your work for you.
Depends on what you want. People who hire me do so because I'm exposed to many disciplines. I don't have one tool in my bag that I only know how to use 'expertly', I know how to use many tools in specific instances very, very well. Am I a Java expert?? Depends on what you want. If you want someone to write GUI code or web code or image processing or a dozen other specialties.. then no if you want me to be productive on day one and don't have any experts already. It might take me a couple of months to come up to speed.
But if you want someone to take a bunch of old, worn out, 20 year old COBOL or C or C++ code that processes data and rewrite, then I'm your guy. If you want someone to take a huge beast of spaghetti code and break it out into discrete steps and multiple processes and objects that can be run independently, threaded, reliably, and with a high degree of fault tolerance, then I'm your guy. If you want someone to take poorly written database programs that suck resources and make them run faster and with fewer resources, give me a call if its SqlServer, Sybase, Informix, or Oracle. Those specific areas I'm experts in. I've written Java programs that run continuously for months, surviving database and network faults and only having to be restarted because the server was rebooted.
I always snicker when someone claims to be an expert in large areas like a language or an OS or a database.. they haven't learned enough yet to know how little they really know.
Like how I snickered about your Python comment. Yep.. day one I will be a mediocre Python programmer. In three months I will be kicking the ass of people who have been coding it for years for most of the mainstream coding, although I'm sure there will be lots of little tricks that I haven't learned yet. It all depends on the quality of the people around me... I did that when I started writing C++ after years of COBOL, then again when I started writing Java. I was using stacks and queues 20 years ago, it's nothing new. Object oriented coding wasn't that difficult to learn either, it's all memory allocation and pointers and regression and localization restraints.
It's all code dude.. either you know how to program, or you just write code.
BTW.. Years ago, all I knew was 'perl' because that's what I typed. I didn't realize that some moron had decided what the 'correct' way to type it was. Must not have gotten that memo....
It's pretty easy to fail when someone is only looking at ways to fail.
Folks that think your way are always the victims and will never rise above what they expect they are capable of doing. I presented a list of viable options, and you took each one and beat it down, and didn't present any new options.
Good luck being a victim all of your life, I'll walk past you on the street and won't drop a dollar in your pitiful cup. And won't feel bad about not helping someone that won't make the effort to help himself,but insists that others have to change their ways in order for him to succeed.
Your analysis is flawed. Put 4 or 6 minimum wage people into that same apartment. Or move back in with your parents. Or find someone who doesn't make minimum wage and become their roommate (I did that, friend of mine got divorced and needed help with his house payment). Or take on more than one job (done that a few times). Or do odd jobs to supplement your income. (yep.. done that too)
Or a dozen other things that responsible, motivated and moral people can do. I started out as an office clerk making $4 an hour back in 1980. Now I have a nice IRA and make 6 figures and no degree.
I lived paycheck to paycheck for many years until I was able to raise my own skills up enough to demand something more than minimum wage by doing this thing called reading. It's amazing how by reading free books you can learn stuff. I once claimed I knew how to run a fork truck when I had never been on one before, took me about 5 minutes to figure it out. After than, I didn't have to do the manual labor the other guys did, and became more valuable to the company I was with since I could do different jobs.
It is possible to do it if someone is willing to work at it instead of acting like a victim all the time.
If the only thing you know is C, I wouldn't hire you either. I'm 51, and have written in just about every major language at some point in my career. If you haven't bothered to learn anything else, I don't want you.
Because the truth is that things change, and folks unwilling or unable to change will be left behind. I started in assembler, dabbled in FORTRAN, wrote COBOL for 15 years, then migrated to C, C++, and now mostly Java. I can program in both the Oracle and Microsoft versions of SQL, do a little C#, wrote PERL scripts for about 10 years, and could easily learn a new language at any time if I needed to. The only reason I don't know Ruby or Python or a dozen other Web languages is I don't have the time or the need. But I've looked at them and know I could very quickly.
Take the time to sit on your ass in front of your computer and at least get to know something else. You don't have to be an expert in it if you can show you are a good programmer and follow good programming practices, such as maintainability and error handling.
... why we haven't seen good evidence of 'advanced' civilizations. When they get advanced enough to try space travel, they try stupid things like this and accidentally destroy themselves.
There is a difference between 'finding something new' and 'finding something that used to be right there'. New users are not expected to be proficient or efficient, stumbling around is part of the learning process. I don't have a problem with stumbling around to find a new feature. It's finding something that has been 'right there' for years, and it takes me several minutes to find it since they moved it that I have an issue with. Microsoft has made a conscious decision to make things more difficult for the seasoned users and take up more monitor space for the benefit of new users. Who, once they become power-users, may find the ribbon bar just as space-wasting.
And give me a break on the UI issue. Menus take what... 5?? 10?? minutes to lay out?? Ok.. maybe an hour if someone isn't very good at it?? The routines that have to be called are all the same, so very little new code has to be written. If anything, it takes more time to lay out the ribbon with all of it's useless graphics and non-intuitive symbols than menus. I was using new Excel for months before I discovered that you can click the little icon below the format list and go right to selecting any format, instead of clicking the list and then clicking 'more formats'. A good modular design would accommodate this very easily. They already allow me to add commands to the menu that isn't there, so they could also take the stance of not even adding new features to it, go change it yourself.
And I don't have an issue with something being in the ribbon bar that isn't easily used in the menu bar. Give ME the choice on when to switch, and a fall back if I can't find the 'text to columns' button.
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And Apple fixes that by not giving consumers any choices. Yeah .. that's SOOOO much better.....
And that's why we only have PCs in our house, I get to build my own that are upgradable and easily maintained, and never have any problems. Or, if I wanted to, I could just go out and select from hundreds of different models with a host of options, selecting one that meets my needs best. Apple strangles their market and artificially inflates their price(profits) by keeping choice to a minimum and refusing to license the OS to run on non-Apple hardware. It's a good thing they don't have a larger market share, or the government would be screaming anti-competitive behavior. Same is true of their phone.
.. it doesn't even have 4G yet. Sure, you can use video as long as there is WiFi close by and the person you are talking to also has an Apple. Meanwhile, Android is open and connecting to everyone who isn't an iDrone because they have more choices and Apple products just don't have the edge. And THAT is why they don't have market share.
I don't suggest they don't have the right to do it. But look at all of the different options available for Android, then look at Apple. Heck
Really?? Intuitive?? Dragging a CD to the trash can to eject is intuitive?? Spinning a jog wheel (if you've never seen one before) is intuitive?? Then tell me why my wife, after receiving a nice 'intuitive' iPod, gave it away and went back to her Creative 'brick' player because she could figure it out better, and preferred the software that came with it?? (Why is it that iTunes still doesn't have duplicate song detection???) I have friends that have had the sad job to service 'intuitive' Apple computers for upgrades and such .. they are anything but intuitive except to people that use them.
... the mouse, windows, MP3 players, gestures, and dozens of other things Apple gets credit for were already done before. Everything they did has been INCREMENTAL changes, not evolutionary changes. What Jobs did was make it 'cool' by making it sleek, integrating better, raising the price, and strangling the supply. Why can't I just buy Apple OS and load it onto any PC?? Because the Apple license forbids it. Why can't anyone just build an Apple from scratch, they are just PCs. Because Apple license forbids running their OS on anything but Apple products. Why can't I load any program onto an iPhone??? Because Apple forbids it.
... no, not magnify up, scroll up), when my thumb is much better at flicking it around. I already have voice on my Android, and have found it takes more time to use it than to type. Maybe people just need to learn how to setup their phones so they are more efficient.
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Welcome Comrade to the Union of Socialist Apple, where they tell YOU what you need for requirements. Any color, as long as it's black or white. And this shape. And you don't really need a phone with a keyboard.
As for using voice to control a phone?? Nope, not interested. I have no desire to 'talk' to my phone to send a text message, that is just about the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. I might as well just CALL THE PERSON! Why would I want to control a map or browser (down, down, left, left, magnify, up
Thanks for not pointing to the actual blog in the original article. So what they are really blogging is their ability to move an entire DATA CENTER without having to send people to do it. Other than .. you know .. install the hardware to start with.
Never mind........
Wow ... we were doing this 10 years ago before virtual systems were commonplace, 'computers on a card' where just coming out. Data center was 90 miles away. All monitoring and managing was done remotely. The only time we ever went to physical data center was if a physical piece of hardware had to be swapped out. Multiple IP addresses were configured per server so any single server one one tier could act as a fail over for another one on the same tier. We used firewalls to automate failovers, hardware failures were too infrequent to spend money on other methods. We could rebuild Sun servers in 10 minutes from saved images. All software updates were scripted and automated. A separate maintenance network was maintained. Logins were not allowed except on the maintenance network, and all ports where shutdown except for ssh. A remote serial interface provided hard-console access to each machine if the networks to a system wasn't available.
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Yawn
My current job is mostly internal software, no software is sold (it's mostly data sources that we sell). We don't have testing tools except for some SQL scripts for parallel testing comparisons. Don't really need them either since a parallel test run for a few weeks against production pretty well tests everything (at least in our environment.) And since there are only two developers (the other is my boss), we don't really do much code review, although we do have 'what do you think about this' sessions quite a bit. We use VSS for production (because we always have), and subversion for development source control since Subversion integrates with NetBeans and we don't really have a need to merge code since we never work on the same code sets at the same time. Developers have full access to production, and can put code into place at any time without any restrictions. But since the two of us have over 25 years experience apiece, we know better than to do so during production periods and without adequate testing. I tend to script out database changes so I can make sure what changes in production is what I actually did in dev. No QC system at all, code moves straight from the dev system to production. No long, drawn out design sessions, most design work is done as we code after a high-level 'here is what I think we should do' session. Kinda waterfall like, write some code, get some results, write more code. Takes forever to get anything done because priorities are always shifting.
In a prior company with more outward facing software, we used more automated tools and actually had a QC staff to use them. We used CVS for version control, since there was more of a need of a pure lock/check-in type system. Larger development staff of varying skills, system admins created tar balls and scripts to install code into QC and production. Code was moved to a staging area, then Unison was used to sync to production servers. Developers were not allowed access to any production system. Much more structured with actual design specs and sign offs. Took forever to get anything done because of all the BS that we had to go through.
Both methods worked fine and produced good quality, repeatable results. I prefer the current environment to work in, but the more structured environment is required for larger shops. And the bigger the shop, the more structure that seems to be needed to keep conflicts at a minimum.
And sometimes, people will just produce whatever they get paid the most. I think that is one of the points that was being made, dramatic photos sell and photographers will stage them to make a buck.
That is a far cry from communicate one's understanding of a situation. I agree with your assessment that photographers and journalists can only report on what they understand to be the truth. But it appears that the truth isn't even being shown here, some people are justifying their existence at a non-event by creating photographs that sell. This isn't about a personal point of view, it's about creating a viewpoint that isn't even real.
Bravo to Ruben Salvadori for bringing a more accurate representation of was really going on to the public.
Did you even read what I posted?? She lived with me, she didn't need rent. She had a job, I didn't pay her bills. It took me 25 years to get to 100K, my daughter started as a dog bather and is well on her way to being able to run her own business. She stands a good chance of being able to surpass my income someday.
Only the unmotivated and lazy don't know how to start at the bottom and work their way up. Those opportunities still exist, I've seen them at companies I have worked for. But it was the smart, self-motivated people that did it.
And if someone isn't smart or self-motivated, then they earn what they deserve to earn and need to face up to it.
What these kids want is things given to them, it's not quite the same thing. Most kids growing up don't graduate from high school and then immediately move out. Our kids did not 'depend' on their parents helping out. Both starting going to school without parental help using savings plus I gave my daughter half of the child support I was paying for one semester before she dropped out for awhile. When she went back, ASU had raised their tuition 100% in a little over 7 years. My 'helping out' was only a few grand, no where close to the total amount. I have no idea what his parents have done, but I know he had far more in savings than my daughter did and makes a fair wage as a cart race car instructor.
'Offering' to help is not the same thing as 'depending'. My daughter and I had an understanding, as long as she either had a job or went to school, she could live at home. It doesn't really cost much when your child has a job and pays for all of their expenses to let them live in a room, maybe $20/month for water and electricity. She had her own car (new, I might add) and rarely ate at home at first because I was a single dad and not big on cooking.
Sorry you had parental issues and your parents didn't 'offer' to help you. I only assume that based on the vitriol you are spewing.
Just doing a little math and public numbers .. assuming the US has a population of about 310M, then 3.1M people would be 1% (since I don't know if it's adults or adults and kids, they are using the 1% nomenclature for, let's just start someplace.)
.,, this is WEALTH, not income. This is stuff people own. (I'll ignore the fact for now that the US has about 25% of the worlds wealth, even though we only have less than 10% of the population. Because if the protestors stopped to consider that, they might realize the hypocrisy and greed of what they are talking about.)
.. all of you kids out there who don't own crap .. get over it. Get a job, start building income, and someday you will own part of that 10%. Probably not until you are in your 30s or later. But I started out as an office clerk, worked decent jobs, took advantage of opportunity, and now make close to $100K/year without going to college.
.. they also both go to school full time, she works and he gets a stipend as a grad student. Since they waited until they own a home and don't live on campus, they save thousands. And their college costs are low enough that their parents can help out a bit (about half) without going into debt themselves.
According to Wikipedia, the total net worth in the US is $55T. That means that if 1% of the population (3.1M) have 90% of wealth, then they have about $50T or about 16M/person, and the rest of us (the 99%) have $17K per person. Now
I'm 51 and my wife and I are above this 10% number (that is $17K * 2 or $34K in assets) when I take into account the equity in my home ($0), the vehicles we own, misc. stuff in the house, and our IRAs.
Thirty years ago, I was waaayyy below this number, like at ZERO wealth. Imagine that, as a young man just starting out I didn't have jack shit. Probably didn't even hit the 10% number until I was almost 40.
So
And don't tell me that opportunity doesn't exist today. My 24 year old daughter and her husband were able to save up the 20% down for a house living at home with their parents while doing this thing called 'working' and 'saving'. She started as a dog bather at Pet Smart at 18, took advantage of their free dog grooming training, and now makes a decent income as an independent dog groomer. These two are married and own a home with a mortgage cheaper than a new car payment, and don't quite have $34K in the bank together, but they are getting close. Oh
Put your priorities in order and stop depending on other people to help you out. If you can't find a job, it's because people don't want YOU. It's YOUR fault, not theirs or society's or the 1% group. My wife has been searching for a full time job for 6 months, but you don't see us out there asking for help. We did this thing called 'budgeting' and 'doing without'.
These may be a difficult concepts for some of you young kids to grasp. But it's obvious you haven't learned how to wipe your bottoms, give it some time and you might learn how to do these things too.
Now GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
Like with all things, it depends. I was loyal to one company, and after 7 years they dumped me without warning. No good raises, seems that 'if we give you a raise, then we can't give other people as much' was a common excuse.
... "I'm finding it difficult to not start looking for a new job". We talked a bit about the company and other things, and a few days later I told her I decided that the 'three year itch' was gone and to not worry.
A few years later, I started to work for another company with a great CEO and CTO that I got to know pretty well. Eleven years later and three companies, they were both let go after a buy-out, and I also parted ways since their new interests didn't interest me.
How did I know I could stay loyal?? They paid me more than I could get elsewhere because they didn't want me to leave. They gave me a lot of freedom to get things done.
My new boss and I have an agreement, she will never be surprised by my coming into her office and telling her I'm leaving. I've always followed the rule that I make sure the company I'm with knows that I'm expecting something more out of my job so they have an opportunity to correct things. If they don't address things, then they must not care if I stick around that much.
A couple of weeks ago, she and I had a conversation that went something like this
My boss is unique, I wouldn't recommend that with everyone. But if your boss isn't like that, why are even thinking about staying???
I still buy tunes off of Napster. No DRM and reasonably priced. And no monthly fee to do it. There may be better options out there for some, but it has always worked for me so I haven't bothered looking.
I'm tired of cowards standing behind such statements, these barbarians knowingly and purposefully target civilians with no other reason than to cause terror and disruption. They do not even pretend to follow Geneva Convention accords, and cowardly use with women and children as human shields. They don't wear uniforms so they can be recognized as enemy combatants, putting even more innocents at risk.
They have publicly stated that they are trying to bring about the downfall of this country. If that's not a declaration of war, I don't know what is.
Blast the lot of them, no matter where they stand.
That has always been my guess because when this happens, Firefox itself doesn't use any CPU time and overall CPU utilization doesn't increase. But since I can't do anything about it I just restart it when it gets that way. I was trying to point out that on my machine, I do care how much memory Firefox uses because it does appear to have a memory problem that affects performance.
I can only speak to my own experience, but when FireFox gets up around 800MB on my 4GB machine, it starts to become non-responsive sporadically. It's been this way for some time now, and I've hoped that every new version would fix it.
I have a Zune, it's a POS. I will never, ever buy one again.You can't delete items from the device without it being connected to the computer. You can't create or modify playlists on the device. You can't shuffle playlists. The stupid wheel is too sensitive for my fat hands, it often changes the selection when I press down. The output is barely loud enough for use on my motorcycle (I use speakers in my helmet, it's legal and I can hear traffic around me.) Battery goes completely dead if you don't use it for awhile, even if you turn it 'off'. There is no way to load it except through the software, which wouldn't run for months, it would just startup and fail. Worked fine on another computer in the house. I tried all the online solutions, and the only fix was when I loaded Windows 7 and wiped the OS.
That's all I can think of in 30 seconds, I'm sure there are more.
They (environmentalists) are 'stupid' (your word, not mine) because they fail to take into account adaptability, and instead of expending energy to adapt, they want to spend energy to stop change. You must be an environmentalist since you appear to have been stupid enough to miss that.
... environmentalists like this believe in the phrase "it's always been that way, why change".
And what could possibly go wrong with dumping tons of sulphates into the atmosphere, and dropping the temperature 2C. Hmmm...ice caps and glaciers reforming, sea levels dropping, existing ports becoming useless, acid rain....
Everything every animal does impacts the environment around it. I have yet to meet anyone that is in favor of dumping huge amounts of CO2 into the environment. Instead, they choose to discuss more economically viable means of reducing overall pollutants and reducing energy consumption without bankrupting large parts of the nations with the highest standards of living. It's the 'stupid' environmentalists that are willing to forcibly take from others to so guy in BongoBongo doesn't have to move his stick house. Or those stupid enough to build on barrier islands and other low-lying areas already threatened by hurricanes don't have to move or build dikes. Environmentalists who don't want farmers to have to move their fields or switch to irrigation methods or other crops.
Nope
In my experience, it's always been far easier to adapt to change than to keep change from happening. Sane policies reduced smog in LA and keep rivers from catching on fire, we didn't eliminate cars and plastics to do it.
So the question is, do we spend billions and billions of dollars and impact everyone on the planet, or do we spend billions and billions of dollars to move/protect those in low lying areas.
I vote that we don't impact everyone. That people who live in stick houses can be moved. And that since this isn't going to happen tomorrow, places in low lying areas can start to prepare for it now. And that there are also benefits from global warming that no one in the climate-police group seem to be willing to share so we can have an honest discussion.
In the mean time, I personally have installed high-efficiency appliances and am more mindful of power usage because I CHOOSE to do it because it saves me money. I resent the government telling me I have to because some native in far off BongoBongo might have to move his house made of sticks and palm fronds. Or because some moron decided it was a good idea to build a house on the beach or barrier island where even today hurricanes and such tend to be threats to them.
And can someone shut Al Gore up?? He also falls into the list of non-scientific people who parrot only the information he chooses to parrot.
... Google. Or Yahoo. Or some other search engine. Because all you are going to get here are a bunch of disconnected and contradicting suggestions and will still have to look stuff up yourself to figure out what you want to do.
Stop being so damn lazy and expecting other people to do your work for you.
Depends on what you want. People who hire me do so because I'm exposed to many disciplines. I don't have one tool in my bag that I only know how to use 'expertly', I know how to use many tools in specific instances very, very well. Am I a Java expert?? Depends on what you want. If you want someone to write GUI code or web code or image processing or a dozen other specialties .. then no if you want me to be productive on day one and don't have any experts already. It might take me a couple of months to come up to speed.
.. they haven't learned enough yet to know how little they really know.
.. day one I will be a mediocre Python programmer. In three months I will be kicking the ass of people who have been coding it for years for most of the mainstream coding, although I'm sure there will be lots of little tricks that I haven't learned yet. It all depends on the quality of the people around me ... I did that when I started writing C++ after years of COBOL, then again when I started writing Java. I was using stacks and queues 20 years ago, it's nothing new. Object oriented coding wasn't that difficult to learn either, it's all memory allocation and pointers and regression and localization restraints.
.. either you know how to program, or you just write code.
.. Years ago, all I knew was 'perl' because that's what I typed. I didn't realize that some moron had decided what the 'correct' way to type it was. Must not have gotten that memo....
But if you want someone to take a bunch of old, worn out, 20 year old COBOL or C or C++ code that processes data and rewrite, then I'm your guy. If you want someone to take a huge beast of spaghetti code and break it out into discrete steps and multiple processes and objects that can be run independently, threaded, reliably, and with a high degree of fault tolerance, then I'm your guy. If you want someone to take poorly written database programs that suck resources and make them run faster and with fewer resources, give me a call if its SqlServer, Sybase, Informix, or Oracle. Those specific areas I'm experts in. I've written Java programs that run continuously for months, surviving database and network faults and only having to be restarted because the server was rebooted.
I always snicker when someone claims to be an expert in large areas like a language or an OS or a database
Like how I snickered about your Python comment. Yep
It's all code dude
BTW
It's pretty easy to fail when someone is only looking at ways to fail.
Folks that think your way are always the victims and will never rise above what they expect they are capable of doing. I presented a list of viable options, and you took each one and beat it down, and didn't present any new options.
Good luck being a victim all of your life, I'll walk past you on the street and won't drop a dollar in your pitiful cup. And won't feel bad about not helping someone that won't make the effort to help himself,but insists that others have to change their ways in order for him to succeed.
Your analysis is flawed. Put 4 or 6 minimum wage people into that same apartment. Or move back in with your parents. Or find someone who doesn't make minimum wage and become their roommate (I did that, friend of mine got divorced and needed help with his house payment). Or take on more than one job (done that a few times). Or do odd jobs to supplement your income. (yep .. done that too)
Or a dozen other things that responsible, motivated and moral people can do. I started out as an office clerk making $4 an hour back in 1980. Now I have a nice IRA and make 6 figures and no degree.
I lived paycheck to paycheck for many years until I was able to raise my own skills up enough to demand something more than minimum wage by doing this thing called reading. It's amazing how by reading free books you can learn stuff. I once claimed I knew how to run a fork truck when I had never been on one before, took me about 5 minutes to figure it out. After than, I didn't have to do the manual labor the other guys did, and became more valuable to the company I was with since I could do different jobs.
It is possible to do it if someone is willing to work at it instead of acting like a victim all the time.
If the only thing you know is C, I wouldn't hire you either. I'm 51, and have written in just about every major language at some point in my career. If you haven't bothered to learn anything else, I don't want you.
Because the truth is that things change, and folks unwilling or unable to change will be left behind. I started in assembler, dabbled in FORTRAN, wrote COBOL for 15 years, then migrated to C, C++, and now mostly Java. I can program in both the Oracle and Microsoft versions of SQL, do a little C#, wrote PERL scripts for about 10 years, and could easily learn a new language at any time if I needed to. The only reason I don't know Ruby or Python or a dozen other Web languages is I don't have the time or the need. But I've looked at them and know I could very quickly.
Take the time to sit on your ass in front of your computer and at least get to know something else. You don't have to be an expert in it if you can show you are a good programmer and follow good programming practices, such as maintainability and error handling.
... why we haven't seen good evidence of 'advanced' civilizations. When they get advanced enough to try space travel, they try stupid things like this and accidentally destroy themselves.
There is a difference between 'finding something new' and 'finding something that used to be right there'. New users are not expected to be proficient or efficient, stumbling around is part of the learning process. I don't have a problem with stumbling around to find a new feature. It's finding something that has been 'right there' for years, and it takes me several minutes to find it since they moved it that I have an issue with. Microsoft has made a conscious decision to make things more difficult for the seasoned users and take up more monitor space for the benefit of new users. Who, once they become power-users, may find the ribbon bar just as space-wasting.
... 5?? 10?? minutes to lay out?? Ok .. maybe an hour if someone isn't very good at it?? The routines that have to be called are all the same, so very little new code has to be written. If anything, it takes more time to lay out the ribbon with all of it's useless graphics and non-intuitive symbols than menus. I was using new Excel for months before I discovered that you can click the little icon below the format list and go right to selecting any format, instead of clicking the list and then clicking 'more formats'. A good modular design would accommodate this very easily. They already allow me to add commands to the menu that isn't there, so they could also take the stance of not even adding new features to it, go change it yourself.
And give me a break on the UI issue. Menus take what
And I don't have an issue with something being in the ribbon bar that isn't easily used in the menu bar. Give ME the choice on when to switch, and a fall back if I can't find the 'text to columns' button.