>Or do the old-timers just not get new technology?
There's the old people who use age as an excuse for not bothering to learn. They just don't want to.
Then there are the grandmas who are tech savvy. They get the internet, webcams, texting, and the shabang - then they tell their kids and grandkids, "I got internet, webcam, texting and all this connectivity. What's your excuse NOW for not calling?!?"
Besides, most people over 40 don't want to spend 60hours+/week at work.
That's because we got burnt too many times with the line of: "Work your ass off and there will be rewards." only to get a pink slip or just a cost of living raise with the rational that "you missed some of your metrics" or "you missed a deadline" - regardless of how unreasonable it was and the fact that the deadline was made by the marketing department to make a trade show or because the salesmen bullshitted to make the sale.
We also learned that if you have to work 60+ hours a week regularly, it is the result of incompetent management.
Some believe that the H1B flooding is actually designed to get rid of older IT workers
I think that's just to keep wages down in general. Our universities are pumping out plenty of CS and MIS grads as well as math and engineering graduates to keep up with demand. The companies that say there are shortages are just saying that to justify going overseas or to bring in H-1bs.
My father in law in quite an accomplished design engineer but as he got older, he has been gradually moved into testing positions.
It starts off with a lay-off and he gets it, finds another job that's not quite what he did before, lay-off, then another job not quite like what he did, and so on until now where he's writing Perl scripts to take data from testing equipment and putting that into Excel spreadsheets. Pretty beneath him, but he's grateful to have some sort of technical job at 70. All his contemporaries went into management (if they could) a long time ago, changed careers or they're now retired.
In my programming experience, I've known very few folks who stayed in programming after 40. One was well into his 50s but he grabbed onto a product and stuck with it for years. When I left, he was still programming C on Dos. But folks came and went because they didn't want to work on old shit and he was very lucky to have gotten a product with a very long market life - cash register software.
Forrester projected that the $150 price point would jump start e-reader sales.
And I predict a $49.99 will make them take off like a rocket!
Now if only there was a price war with content.
I think subtracting the printing and distribution costs of a printed version from a dead tree version of a book would be a fair price for econtent - the publisher makes their money, the author gets the same royalty, and the consumer doesn't feel like their over-paying for content.
Example: $50 paper book - $20 for royalties, advertising, general administrative costs, publisher profit = $30 for printing, paper, trucking of the dead trees. Sell the book for $20 + retailer markup = $28.
I can live with that for the same content. Now if they'd allow for that content to be transferred easily..... yeah, dream on. I guess if someone want's to borrow a book on the eReader, you would have to lend them the entire reader. That sucks!
"I don't really care what you had for breakfast,.."
Is really a quick way of saying that you don't want to bombarded by trivial details, irrelevant information or even relevant information. Just give me everything all at once and edit out the crap.
I don't care how interesting someone may be, getting updates about every little thing would be annoying; regardless of how relevant it may be.
Mistakes can cost us time and money, expose us to danger or inflict harm on others, and erode the trust extended to us by our community.
Or being ridiculed and humiliated by assholes who gain a false sense of superiority by belittling people over mistakes - many times trivial ones. Which then leads the other person to dig their heals in, argue pedantic points to stay "right" which then leads to counter pedantic arguments from the other, and round and round we go!
But hey! That's what you get when you post on Slashdot or work in IT.
Plus tech workers are well informed workers, underpaid third world tech workers, know full well they are dramatically underpaid third world tech workers, this does not put them in the right frame of mind for declaring and cleaning up all possibly exploitable security faults.
Or....they're being paid quite a bit more than their neighbors and living like kings in their home country - even if they are being paid significantly less than a Western worker.
Let's put in an American point of view: A tech worker in the outskirts of Austin will make quite a bit less than a worker in Silicon Valley, but considering the cost of living differential, the Austin worker is probably better off. Or if you're living and working in SE Florida, you'll be making a bit less than someone in Metro Atlanta, but you're by the beach with hot chicks in bikinis - and NO STATE INCOME TAX.
If you look at the working conditions at Tata and Wipro in India, I tell ya, it looks pretty damn good even from my Western eyes.
Your inner monologue is so interesting to the rest of us.
Ooooooh, shen you'll like mine! I'm piiss drunk form the Fadder's day picnic!
I gotta pee! I feel wooogy. Cousin Sofia was look'in Reeeeaaaaaal goood! She's my first cousin so I can think that about her. Or is the second -ah fuck it -no! fuck her! Yeah! I'll just use a ruber!
Anywho, what was I just thinking...
Oh yeah, my ass! God it's ichty. I was having a farting contest with my borther and I think I squeezed out a little one adn it dried causing this itchingness.
Aunt Sofie's kind a hot like Harry Potter's aunt. Oh she's hot. If I were Harry I'd be nailing aunt....what the fuck was her name....great rack!
Nailing Ron's sister - hey fire bush! - let's make some magic.
Hey! Do they teach penis enlargement spells at Hogwarts?! Enlargamus biganus! No! Shit that enlarges the asshole! Dammit! Enlargamus peanutumus! Shit Got a large bag of peanuts!
As an example, she noted the struggle to use full-body scanners at airports caused worries that they would invade people's privacy.
The scanners are useful in identifying explosives or other nonmetal weapons that ordinary metal-detectors might miss — such as the explosives that authorities said were successfully brought on board the Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
First, they do invade privacy it's just that folks have given up in arguing with the Government or there's the folks who are stupid enough to believe that it's important - I know a couple of them.
Secondly, that Nigerian boarded the aircraft IN NIGERIA! How many of these scanners do you think are going to be in piss poor third world countries?! NONE. And that's were most of the threat is coming from.
In the meantime, our stupid Government is scanning us: me, you, them, the 99.9999999999999999999999999999999% of travelers who just want to fucking get to their destinations. Of course, those big shots making policy, they don't fly commercial! Congressmen fly on private jets -Have a look.
Security is just theater for us little people to follow and be inconvenienced by.
Will these cheaper options be more efficient, or just cheaper?
More efficient.
Between government salaries, the way they get contracts, how NASA's budget is dependent on pork barrel spending, NASA having to put some projects in certain states to get votes from Congressmen for a budget, price gouging by contractors, etc...
Just eliminating Congress from the loop is going to save billions. Add in businessmen/engineers and you have a much more efficient space program.
Safety? We'll see if it's reduced. But I have a feeling there won't be change in safety record.
If we're testing based on what is learned by rote and kids are using computers for looking things up instead of memorizing them, I see why their test scores are going down.
Wasn't it Einstein who responded to a question that asked him some trivia, "Why should I memorize it when I can just look it up?" or something?
My Chinese teacher was talking about the competitiveness of Chinese Universities and when we stared to show admiration, my teacher was quick to add that they're taught by rote learning - passing tests - and they're not taught on how to solve problems. They're taught to follow.
My teacher is Chinese from China as opposed to someone who grew up in California.
Atlas? I thought they used a Saturn V that was supposed to be for another Moon mission for it - which made much easier to put it on the Saturn V that put into orbit.
I can't stand the damn advertisements at the beginning. My bladder is only so big and sitting through a 2 hour movie is a challenge. I also have this thing about arriving late to miss the ads - walking in the dark, trying to find a seat - I like to sit at the very back under the projectionist - anyway, I have to plan to be dehydrated a little before I see a movie so that I can sit through it.
It's also pretty pathetic that they have to remind people to be quiet and turn off their cell phones. Off course there's always one person that gets a call, their ringer is on full blast, it's also some hokey ring tone that just pierces through the movie sound ( and if you have an actor who likes to do those dramatic whispering dialogs...), and of course, the phone is somewhere that's not in easy reach so it rings 4 or 5 times (one ring of a ringtone lasts the equivalent of 4 standard rings.) Then, some asshats actually answer the phone and talk.
Then there's the shitty quality of movies in the theater. After watching clear crisp DVDs, a 35mm projected movie looks fuzzy to me. They all do so it couldn't have been a projectionist that didn't know what he was doing.
Could you give an example? I don't doubt it, it just seems as though NF is the last in line for many things. Most of the time, I have to wait months before a movie is available on NF.
And they're really weird about streaming. They'll offer a streamed version for a couple of months, take it off, and then put it back on.
It was like they filmed a stage play. Pretty much one set and one hell of a story.
It was a great Sci-Fi movie with no special effects!
I wish Hollywood would spend more time on stories instead of special effects. I really hate movies that are all special effects or just action sequences - yawn.
I can't believe they got much as everyone is making it out to be. Here in my neighborhood, there's over a half a dozen Wifi networks I can see. All but one, is secured - roughly 14% unsecured. Now, if you happen to be driving through the neighborhood on some random day, how likely are you to get the individual logging onto a his email or something - assuming the logon isn't encrypted?
That's the other thing, how many websites or POP3 servers that don't have encrypted communications?
Yet another example showing that the Islamic world is still in the Dark Ages that most of the rest of the world emerged from sometime in the 13th century.
It's just some loudmouths and, unfortunately, the folks in power in many Islamic countries.
As more Muslims interact with the Western World, there's more subtle pressure on the loudmouths and ignoramuses within their community to shut up and shape up. They do see the World passing them by and many look around and ask themselves "Why, just why are we in a Third World shit hole and the rest of the World, (except for most of Africa) is passing us by?" It can't be post Western Colonization or any other intellectual excuses or rationalizations that their leadership likes to use as a platform to promote their own agendas.
No, that Pakistani lawyer is just a loudmouth spewing shit for his own political and power games.
See, you're full of it. Because if there is illegal things on the computers, the police will confiscate them and they will start putting people in handcuffs.
They could also accuse the company as being a front , such as here
"He goes through the logs to see if there's anything in there that needs to be exposed or discussed." Activity related to porn, gambling or hate speech automatically raises red flags, he says.
He once caught an employee who was engaged in criminal activity involving intellectual property that could have resulted in a big financial loss for the company.
Many years ago, I was in the company's server room talking to a buddy and he mentioned that an employee was taking up quite a bit of drive space - with porn. The guy had a problem. All you need is one guy with a problem like that to download some kiddie porn and your business will be shut down and you go to jail - over an employee with a problem. The guy I mentioned was talked to and I think he was asked to resign.
Observers say IT managers can expect to be asked to take on even more monitoring duties, such are reviewing video surveillance, examining text messages, tracking employee location by GPS or listening in on social media.
That's going too far. Come on - a Stalinist company?!?
Larger companies have started to hire third-party firms to monitor what's said about them in the blogosphere and on social media sites, but in many midsize and small companies, this duty could fall to IT.
That's also going too far. It's one thing what an employee does on company time and with company's resources, but they do on their own time - as long as it's legal shouldn't be a company's business.
It turns out that there are giant frozen lakes on the darkside - where we can't see them. And because it's dark, probes have never seen it and it's ice so it doesn't evaporate into space.
So there you go.
Oh, and they found out that there are Amazon women up there who skate on that ice.
HP ran two trials where consumers received content from a U.S. national music magazine and major U.S. newspaper along with advertisements, said Stephen Nigro, senior vice president in HP's Imaging and Printing Group.
Notice the word "trials". Now, if this is like any other trial, those people got the ink and paper and even the printer for free - of course they're weren't bothered. They weren't paying for the $10,000/gallon ink.
When these get into the market place, I can guarantee that people will start bitching when they're buying inkjet cartridges all the time to pay for this.
Anyway, when I want something printed, I buy a regular subscription because it's way cheaper to buy it from the publisher - and it a much higher quality than I could ever get from an HP printer or any other consumer grade printer.
Elderly people. They have this attitude that because the offer showed up on their machine, it must be legit. Older folks are a bit more trusting - generally speaking. Of course, that's a generalization. My Dad is one hell of a cynic and when he die and if there's a Heaven, St. Peter is going to get a lot of shit. "How do I know this is really Heaven? Put it in writing!"
Uneducated people. These are also the people who buy shit from infomercials that will "cleanse their colon" and attend hotel ball room "lectures" on how to make hundreds of thousands of dollars trading stocks - all you have to do is pay $1200 for their "special" trading program. Of course, there are some really street smart uneducated people who get one over on MBAs - so I'm speaking about my experiences, only.
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If they started a couple of years ago, I'd agree with you, but Google started in 1998. Hardly new in tech terms.
There's the old people who use age as an excuse for not bothering to learn. They just don't want to.
Then there are the grandmas who are tech savvy. They get the internet, webcams, texting, and the shabang - then they tell their kids and grandkids, "I got internet, webcam, texting and all this connectivity. What's your excuse NOW for not calling?!?"
Besides, most people over 40 don't want to spend 60hours+/week at work.
That's because we got burnt too many times with the line of: "Work your ass off and there will be rewards." only to get a pink slip or just a cost of living raise with the rational that "you missed some of your metrics" or "you missed a deadline" - regardless of how unreasonable it was and the fact that the deadline was made by the marketing department to make a trade show or because the salesmen bullshitted to make the sale.
We also learned that if you have to work 60+ hours a week regularly, it is the result of incompetent management.
Some believe that the H1B flooding is actually designed to get rid of older IT workers
I think that's just to keep wages down in general. Our universities are pumping out plenty of CS and MIS grads as well as math and engineering graduates to keep up with demand. The companies that say there are shortages are just saying that to justify going overseas or to bring in H-1bs.
My father in law in quite an accomplished design engineer but as he got older, he has been gradually moved into testing positions.
It starts off with a lay-off and he gets it, finds another job that's not quite what he did before, lay-off, then another job not quite like what he did, and so on until now where he's writing Perl scripts to take data from testing equipment and putting that into Excel spreadsheets. Pretty beneath him, but he's grateful to have some sort of technical job at 70. All his contemporaries went into management (if they could) a long time ago, changed careers or they're now retired.
In my programming experience, I've known very few folks who stayed in programming after 40. One was well into his 50s but he grabbed onto a product and stuck with it for years. When I left, he was still programming C on Dos. But folks came and went because they didn't want to work on old shit and he was very lucky to have gotten a product with a very long market life - cash register software.
Forrester projected that the $150 price point would jump start e-reader sales.
And I predict a $49.99 will make them take off like a rocket!
Now if only there was a price war with content.
I think subtracting the printing and distribution costs of a printed version from a dead tree version of a book would be a fair price for econtent - the publisher makes their money, the author gets the same royalty, and the consumer doesn't feel like their over-paying for content.
Example: $50 paper book - $20 for royalties, advertising, general administrative costs, publisher profit = $30 for printing, paper, trucking of the dead trees. Sell the book for $20 + retailer markup = $28.
I can live with that for the same content. Now if they'd allow for that content to be transferred easily ..... yeah, dream on. I guess if someone want's to borrow a book on the eReader, you would have to lend them the entire reader. That sucks!
Is really a quick way of saying that you don't want to bombarded by trivial details, irrelevant information or even relevant information. Just give me everything all at once and edit out the crap.
I don't care how interesting someone may be, getting updates about every little thing would be annoying; regardless of how relevant it may be.
Mistakes can cost us time and money, expose us to danger or inflict harm on others, and erode the trust extended to us by our community.
Or being ridiculed and humiliated by assholes who gain a false sense of superiority by belittling people over mistakes - many times trivial ones. Which then leads the other person to dig their heals in, argue pedantic points to stay "right" which then leads to counter pedantic arguments from the other, and round and round we go!
But hey! That's what you get when you post on Slashdot or work in IT.
Plus tech workers are well informed workers, underpaid third world tech workers, know full well they are dramatically underpaid third world tech workers, this does not put them in the right frame of mind for declaring and cleaning up all possibly exploitable security faults.
Or....they're being paid quite a bit more than their neighbors and living like kings in their home country - even if they are being paid significantly less than a Western worker.
Let's put in an American point of view: A tech worker in the outskirts of Austin will make quite a bit less than a worker in Silicon Valley, but considering the cost of living differential, the Austin worker is probably better off. Or if you're living and working in SE Florida, you'll be making a bit less than someone in Metro Atlanta, but you're by the beach with hot chicks in bikinis - and NO STATE INCOME TAX.
If you look at the working conditions at Tata and Wipro in India, I tell ya, it looks pretty damn good even from my Western eyes.
Your inner monologue is so interesting to the rest of us.
Ooooooh, shen you'll like mine! I'm piiss drunk form the Fadder's day picnic!
I gotta pee! I feel wooogy. Cousin Sofia was look'in Reeeeaaaaaal goood! She's my first cousin so I can think that about her. Or is the second -ah fuck it -no! fuck her! Yeah! I'll just use a ruber!
Anywho, what was I just thinking...
Oh yeah, my ass! God it's ichty. I was having a farting contest with my borther and I think I squeezed out a little one adn it dried causing this itchingness.
Aunt Sofie's kind a hot like Harry Potter's aunt. Oh she's hot. If I were Harry I'd be nailing aunt....what the fuck was her name....great rack!
Nailing Ron's sister - hey fire bush! - let's make some magic.
Hey! Do they teach penis enlargement spells at Hogwarts?! Enlargamus biganus! No! Shit that enlarges the asshole! Dammit! Enlargamus peanutumus! Shit Got a large bag of peanuts!
Gotta sleep.....
As an example, she noted the struggle to use full-body scanners at airports caused worries that they would invade people's privacy.
The scanners are useful in identifying explosives or other nonmetal weapons that ordinary metal-detectors might miss — such as the explosives that authorities said were successfully brought on board the Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day by Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
First, they do invade privacy it's just that folks have given up in arguing with the Government or there's the folks who are stupid enough to believe that it's important - I know a couple of them.
Secondly, that Nigerian boarded the aircraft IN NIGERIA! How many of these scanners do you think are going to be in piss poor third world countries?! NONE. And that's were most of the threat is coming from.
In the meantime, our stupid Government is scanning us: me, you, them, the 99.9999999999999999999999999999999% of travelers who just want to fucking get to their destinations. Of course, those big shots making policy, they don't fly commercial! Congressmen fly on private jets -Have a look.
Security is just theater for us little people to follow and be inconvenienced by.
Will these cheaper options be more efficient, or just cheaper?
More efficient.
Between government salaries, the way they get contracts, how NASA's budget is dependent on pork barrel spending, NASA having to put some projects in certain states to get votes from Congressmen for a budget, price gouging by contractors, etc...
Just eliminating Congress from the loop is going to save billions. Add in businessmen/engineers and you have a much more efficient space program.
Safety? We'll see if it's reduced. But I have a feeling there won't be change in safety record.
If we're testing based on what is learned by rote and kids are using computers for looking things up instead of memorizing them, I see why their test scores are going down.
Wasn't it Einstein who responded to a question that asked him some trivia, "Why should I memorize it when I can just look it up?" or something?
My Chinese teacher was talking about the competitiveness of Chinese Universities and when we stared to show admiration, my teacher was quick to add that they're taught by rote learning - passing tests - and they're not taught on how to solve problems. They're taught to follow.
My teacher is Chinese from China as opposed to someone who grew up in California.
Atlas? I thought they used a Saturn V that was supposed to be for another Moon mission for it - which made much easier to put it on the Saturn V that put into orbit.
It's also pretty pathetic that they have to remind people to be quiet and turn off their cell phones. Off course there's always one person that gets a call, their ringer is on full blast, it's also some hokey ring tone that just pierces through the movie sound ( and if you have an actor who likes to do those dramatic whispering dialogs ...), and of course, the phone is somewhere that's not in easy reach so it rings 4 or 5 times (one ring of a ringtone lasts the equivalent of 4 standard rings.) Then, some asshats actually answer the phone and talk.
Then there's the shitty quality of movies in the theater. After watching clear crisp DVDs, a 35mm projected movie looks fuzzy to me. They all do so it couldn't have been a projectionist that didn't know what he was doing.
DVDs for the win.
Could you give an example? I don't doubt it, it just seems as though NF is the last in line for many things. Most of the time, I have to wait months before a movie is available on NF.
And they're really weird about streaming. They'll offer a streamed version for a couple of months, take it off, and then put it back on.
It was a great Sci-Fi movie with no special effects!
I wish Hollywood would spend more time on stories instead of special effects. I really hate movies that are all special effects or just action sequences - yawn.
That's the other thing, how many websites or POP3 servers that don't have encrypted communications?
Yet another example showing that the Islamic world is still in the Dark Ages that most of the rest of the world emerged from sometime in the 13th century.
It's just some loudmouths and, unfortunately, the folks in power in many Islamic countries.
As more Muslims interact with the Western World, there's more subtle pressure on the loudmouths and ignoramuses within their community to shut up and shape up. They do see the World passing them by and many look around and ask themselves "Why, just why are we in a Third World shit hole and the rest of the World, (except for most of Africa) is passing us by?" It can't be post Western Colonization or any other intellectual excuses or rationalizations that their leadership likes to use as a platform to promote their own agendas.
No, that Pakistani lawyer is just a loudmouth spewing shit for his own political and power games.
Ignore him for the clown that he is.
They could also accuse the company as being a front , such as here
So again, you are wrong.
"He goes through the logs to see if there's anything in there that needs to be exposed or discussed." Activity related to porn, gambling or hate speech automatically raises red flags, he says.
He once caught an employee who was engaged in criminal activity involving intellectual property that could have resulted in a big financial loss for the company.
Many years ago, I was in the company's server room talking to a buddy and he mentioned that an employee was taking up quite a bit of drive space - with porn. The guy had a problem. All you need is one guy with a problem like that to download some kiddie porn and your business will be shut down and you go to jail - over an employee with a problem. The guy I mentioned was talked to and I think he was asked to resign.
Observers say IT managers can expect to be asked to take on even more monitoring duties, such are reviewing video surveillance, examining text messages, tracking employee location by GPS or listening in on social media.
That's going too far. Come on - a Stalinist company?!?
Larger companies have started to hire third-party firms to monitor what's said about them in the blogosphere and on social media sites, but in many midsize and small companies, this duty could fall to IT.
That's also going too far. It's one thing what an employee does on company time and with company's resources, but they do on their own time - as long as it's legal shouldn't be a company's business.
So there you go.
Oh, and they found out that there are Amazon women up there who skate on that ice.
HP ran two trials where consumers received content from a U.S. national music magazine and major U.S. newspaper along with advertisements, said Stephen Nigro, senior vice president in HP's Imaging and Printing Group.
Notice the word "trials". Now, if this is like any other trial, those people got the ink and paper and even the printer for free - of course they're weren't bothered. They weren't paying for the $10,000/gallon ink.
When these get into the market place, I can guarantee that people will start bitching when they're buying inkjet cartridges all the time to pay for this.
Anyway, when I want something printed, I buy a regular subscription because it's way cheaper to buy it from the publisher - and it a much higher quality than I could ever get from an HP printer or any other consumer grade printer.
Elderly people. They have this attitude that because the offer showed up on their machine, it must be legit. Older folks are a bit more trusting - generally speaking. Of course, that's a generalization. My Dad is one hell of a cynic and when he die and if there's a Heaven, St. Peter is going to get a lot of shit. "How do I know this is really Heaven? Put it in writing!"
Uneducated people. These are also the people who buy shit from infomercials that will "cleanse their colon" and attend hotel ball room "lectures" on how to make hundreds of thousands of dollars trading stocks - all you have to do is pay $1200 for their "special" trading program. Of course, there are some really street smart uneducated people who get one over on MBAs - so I'm speaking about my experiences, only.
Are they working on a RoboPope?
Drop your weapons and repent!
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sure they weren't just emptying the onboard toilets?
Then there would have been blue clouds and blue snow.
Anyway, Pilots couldn't even if they wanted to.
Hmmm. He was using "assembler" and "boot loader" as an example.I wonder what that makes you?