Ahem, be careful when using example addresses. Like phone numbers, someone is bound to have it.
Someone using an email address like BobThePlumber@gmail.com is asking for people to send messages to it, whether he knows it or not and including spam. If you dont want to get random emails then use an obscure one, like mine for example:- oreiunsniewpnfwnfpieqwfnnlnnieieasnca@gaschamber.com. Oh, wait...
If these people are more worried about what email address someone uses rather than their qualifications, that explains the sorry state of affairs in the tech industry today. Flash over subs
I think you should see some of the weirder email addresses people use before you make statements like that.
Do I look at the email address? Yes - as I'm walking with their CV in my hand to the room to interview them -.... As long as there email address isn't something like bigboy76@hotmail.com I don't care
Then that's a bit late to check. You were just about to ahead with the interview and are now going to waste at least 10 minutes. There are far worse email addresses than that. I have seen "@deadchildren" and "@pervert" for example.
In times gone by, poor itinerant workers and homeless people did that. Ropes were slung across rooms (stables and cellars generally) and people slumped over them for the night. Hence the expression "I am so tired I could sleep on a clothes line":- Seen here
The incandecent bulb will last around 1100 hours..., but the LED will last an average of 10X longer.
Not in my experience. I bought a small LED torch (flashlamp to Americans) and after a few weeks it failed. I thought I was just unlucky so I bought another but after a few weeks that one failed too. You can't change the LED "bulbs" (if that was the fault). I have now gone back to a filament bulb torch that my father-in-law gave me; it is probably 60 years old with low cost bulb changes every few years; it just works.
Almost everything that takes power is using up some sort of filament that will hit zero eventually... which is why computers need to be replaced every 5 years or so.
Filament? As in thermionic valves? I am afraid I tossed my ENIAC into landfill (irresponsible, I know) about 15 years ago and got a microchip based one instead, but I'm still using some of those 15 year-old bits today. I dont think there is anything I'm using right now that is less than 5 years old.
Forcing companies to provide very long term support for long outdated technologies will decidedly tilt the playing field in favor large players at the expense of small innovative companies.
Thanks, but I don't want an innovative fridge, hair drier or cooker. I just want them to fucking work, and keep working.
Deliberate wind-up here. If you are that paranoid go ahead and change your gadgets every year; I have better things to do with my cash. But in fact the older the gadget the less spyware it likely to have in it - that crap increases all the time.
I'm another who knows what Ampex means. My father worked for the BBC engineering dept in the 1950's and was closely involved in developing VERA, the BBC's own video recorder. It recorded linearly using huge high-speed tape reels. However the Ampex spinning head technology, developed about the same time, was adopted instead as it allowed a slow tape speed and smaller reels. VERA was scrapped but I still have bits of it at home, and there is a reel that my father probably made in the London Science Museum.
The price is ridiculous. I have been involved as an overseer in decommissioning several nuclear power stations in the UK. What happens is that most of the people and organisations involved see it as a money spinner and drag things out as far as possible. The on-site people (power station staff plus contractors) knew they would be out of a job once decommissioning finished, so they dragged everything out - things were done with agonisiing, unnecessary and theatrical "care", more so than when the stations were running which was already far more than careful enough, as the record shows on my watch. Visiting the sites was like watching movies in slow motion.
It is not helped by politicians (who know fuck all about tech, least of all about nuclear) worried about PR, with the anti-nukes (who also know fuck all about tech, least of all about nuclear) screaming that we were not being careful enough. The real agenda of the anti-nukes was for the sites not to be decommissioned at all, to remain as what they saw as an embarassing monuments requiring expensive staffing for ever more; to make things as expensive as possible as a continuing argument against nuclear tech.
Once the fuel had gone (a routine operation - it is replaced routinely when running), and the site left in mothballs for a couple of years for radioactivity to decay before dismantling begins, the remaining risk is actually trivial. I was senior enough to expedite some major operations and eliminate some unnecesary ones, and saved quite a few $millions.
Start a competing service! What's their business model? I'm thinking they don't get a lot of revenue from people running Linux...
But presumably you would only need to install 5% of the equipment and have only 5% of the support calls - probably far less calls for help as they are Linux users.
You know, there is a convenince shop near me. I'm pretty sure they have less than 5% of the World trade in groceries, yet somehow they make a business out of it.
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At least the few I tried in TFA. This is a techies forum FFS. I block Facebook and Twitter.
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No, it implies you are a dick.
Really? If I saw a van with bobtheplumber@gmail.com on the side I'd think "Bloody hell, he got in early."
Indeed. I believe they are now up to bobtheplumber573@gmail.com.
Ahem, be careful when using example addresses. Like phone numbers, someone is bound to have it.
Someone using an email address like BobThePlumber@gmail.com is asking for people to send messages to it, whether he knows it or not and including spam. If you dont want to get random emails then use an obscure one, like mine for example :- oreiunsniewpnfwnfpieqwfnnlnnieieasnca@gaschamber.com. Oh, wait ...
Not where I work. Our HR people can't figure out how Facebook works.
That's funny, neither can I. Can I get a job there? - it sounds like I'd fit in.
If these people are more worried about what email address someone uses rather than their qualifications, that explains the sorry state of affairs in the tech industry today. Flash over subs
I think you should see some of the weirder email addresses people use before you make statements like that.
Using 365 shows you are either a dick or a minion.
Do I look at the email address? Yes - as I'm walking with their CV in my hand to the room to interview them - .... As long as there email address isn't something like bigboy76@hotmail.com I don't care
Then that's a bit late to check. You were just about to ahead with the interview and are now going to waste at least 10 minutes. There are far worse email addresses than that. I have seen "@deadchildren" and "@pervert" for example.
I went to rural India and everyone spends 4 hours of sleep max .... vibrant and beaming with energy, never sick.
I'm glad to hear it. So can we stop trying to feel sorry and guilty about Indians? - I've been finding it an effort for a while now.
Try getting healthy food prepared for you ...... We have a long way to go.
You have a long way to go, not me.
What if you sleep standing upright ?
In times gone by, poor itinerant workers and homeless people did that. Ropes were slung across rooms (stables and cellars generally) and people slumped over them for the night. Hence the expression "I am so tired I could sleep on a clothes line" :- Seen here
I just bought a three pack of high quality, 5000K temperature, 100-watt replacements for $5. They are rated to last 100,000 hours
You are an advertising script writer's wet dream.
The incandecent bulb will last around 1100 hours ..., but the LED will last an average of 10X longer.
Not in my experience. I bought a small LED torch (flashlamp to Americans) and after a few weeks it failed. I thought I was just unlucky so I bought another but after a few weeks that one failed too. You can't change the LED "bulbs" (if that was the fault). I have now gone back to a filament bulb torch that my father-in-law gave me; it is probably 60 years old with low cost bulb changes every few years; it just works.
Granted, although I had not heard of that before now.
Almost everything that takes power is using up some sort of filament that will hit zero eventually... which is why computers need to be replaced every 5 years or so.
Filament? As in thermionic valves? I am afraid I tossed my ENIAC into landfill (irresponsible, I know) about 15 years ago and got a microchip based one instead, but I'm still using some of those 15 year-old bits today. I dont think there is anything I'm using right now that is less than 5 years old.
Forcing companies to provide very long term support for long outdated technologies will decidedly tilt the playing field in favor large players at the expense of small innovative companies.
Thanks, but I don't want an innovative fridge, hair drier or cooker. I just want them to fucking work, and keep working.
This is the first good thing I have ever known to come out of the EU; pity they left it till now as the UK is just leaving.
Deliberate wind-up here. If you are that paranoid go ahead and change your gadgets every year; I have better things to do with my cash. But in fact the older the gadget the less spyware it likely to have in it - that crap increases all the time.
The future should not be held hostage by the past.
Quite. That damned Ampex sign has held me hostage for long enough.
the Allies couldn't believe that Hitler would keep orchestras playing on the air all night long
Don't need a tape recorder for that. Didn't it occur to the Allies that Hitler could have been playing records?
I'm another who knows what Ampex means. My father worked for the BBC engineering dept in the 1950's and was closely involved in developing VERA, the BBC's own video recorder. It recorded linearly using huge high-speed tape reels. However the Ampex spinning head technology, developed about the same time, was adopted instead as it allowed a slow tape speed and smaller reels. VERA was scrapped but I still have bits of it at home, and there is a reel that my father probably made in the London Science Museum.
The price is ridiculous. I have been involved as an overseer in decommissioning several nuclear power stations in the UK. What happens is that most of the people and organisations involved see it as a money spinner and drag things out as far as possible. The on-site people (power station staff plus contractors) knew they would be out of a job once decommissioning finished, so they dragged everything out - things were done with agonisiing, unnecessary and theatrical "care", more so than when the stations were running which was already far more than careful enough, as the record shows on my watch. Visiting the sites was like watching movies in slow motion.
It is not helped by politicians (who know fuck all about tech, least of all about nuclear) worried about PR, with the anti-nukes (who also know fuck all about tech, least of all about nuclear) screaming that we were not being careful enough. The real agenda of the anti-nukes was for the sites not to be decommissioned at all, to remain as what they saw as an embarassing monuments requiring expensive staffing for ever more; to make things as expensive as possible as a continuing argument against nuclear tech.
Once the fuel had gone (a routine operation - it is replaced routinely when running), and the site left in mothballs for a couple of years for radioactivity to decay before dismantling begins, the remaining risk is actually trivial. I was senior enough to expedite some major operations and eliminate some unnecesary ones, and saved quite a few $millions.
Start a competing service! What's their business model? I'm thinking they don't get a lot of revenue from people running Linux...
But presumably you would only need to install 5% of the equipment and have only 5% of the support calls - probably far less calls for help as they are Linux users.
You know, there is a convenince shop near me. I'm pretty sure they have less than 5% of the World trade in groceries, yet somehow they make a business out of it.
I trust my wife and we do various things to each other, yet we still don't wear each other's used underwear
You are missing a lot.