The subject says it all. So far 7 does all I need I dont need to use touch screens on large displays and I do not trust the cloud, now would I ever store my, or a customers data in the cloud. The govt claims they have access to any of your data not physically in your possession so they could conceiveably track your on line transactions. Be it purchases, sales, savings, or investments. Course they could monitor any router you might go through as well.
California is listed as having over 10,000 earthquakes a year. This figure is more than a tad shy of equaling that (by over 40 times, let alone out numbering it by a factor of two. To say it's double is rediculous.: To quote the USGS: "Each year the southern California area has about 10,000 earthquakes.... If there is a large earthquake, however, the aftershock sequence will produce many more earthquakes of all magnitudes for many months." http://earthquake.usgs.gov/lea... "
I started as a sys admin at age 50, became a Developmental analyst (fancy name for program developer) within a year, another year and a half and I was a project manager with teams. I put every spare cent into the CAP at work and invested all I could afford. I retired comfortably in 7 years. I was offered a consulting job doing the same thing from the same desk through the head hunters with a 50% raise, but no bennies. My regular insurance carried on into retirement so I didn't need the bennies. Turned it down and bought an airplane as I retired so I could could go play.
Note, I had worked over 26 years as a tech before quitting and earning a degree in CS. In my old job I had gained a rep to the point where corporate was requesting me to do engineering jobs which wasn't setting well with the head of maintenance and engineering at our plant. He was adamant that THOSE were jobs for engineering. IOW, I was working myself out of a job. I was having fun and according to my boss, his bosses, boss figured I must be playing around as work wasn't supposed to be fun. I could see the hand writing on the wall. They were trying to engineer me into a bad spot. Play by their local rules, instead of corporates...My way or the highway. I quit and never looked back, earned a 4 year CS degree in 3 with a math minor. Did well enough I was offered a graduate assistant-ship for my masters from another university. I was hired right out of grad school without having to look for a job. I don't know if I'd have the guts to do that now, but I did then and that's what counts.
I was 50 when I started on my masters at a time when jobs were few. They called me and asked me to turn in an application so they could make a job offer.
Has nothing to do with the issue.
There are primaries for the parties. The members vote for who they want to run "In their party". Virtually anyone can contribute to those candidates. As long as they are "US citizens" They are really separate elections. You can vote in only one, but you can contribute to any, or all candidates within limits.
Much of society sees IT in the stereotyped large round glasses and buck toothed, geek!. We actually had one woman in our department that didn't want people to know where she worked. I think she'd have rather been called a "street walker" than a member of the IT staff.
OTOH it's not just IT, but most, if not all science jobs. As the one OWSer remarked in an interview after being asked if she knew all the good paying jobs were there, why didn't she pursue a degree in one of those fields replied, "Oh, that's too hard!". IOW they want to get good paying jobs without having to work for them and there is the social stigma in schools against good grades and even more so for science. This is as much the students fault as society and peer pressure. The "nerd syndrome". They are wrapped up in their field and have no interest in socializing, writing, or communicating. They can't understand that for almost any job, it takes a well rounded individual. This shows up in the quality of applicants we see in their attitudes, and inability to communicate. Many have problems putting, complete, coherent sentences together when talking, let alone writing. They may be geniuses, but come across sounding like airheads. We used to have computing contests for high schools at the university. Invariably a couple of schools would have teams of "computer whizzes". Not once did any of them ever finish. We'd give them a relatively simple problem to solve. They could write good code, but knew nothing about problem solving. What did they think we do with computers? Recently on one of the news groups, (might have been here) a guy was complaining about the system. He had good grades and claimed to have sent out over a hundred resumes with out one answer. It was evident he lacked writing and communications skills from his comments. However he could not accept that the problem was him and not the system. He'd lash out at anyone who tried to show him how to improve. Poor communications skills, poor writing ability, and a bad attitude that was apparent in his writing. Communications skills and writing ability are almost as important as your major and can get you in the door, or prevent the most skilled from entering. Problem is, most that lack those skills are the last to admit, or recognize the problem. It's just so much easier to blame some one or something else rather than changing because that takes admitting you're wrong and takes effort, a lot of effort to change. I was a computer systems project manager for a large, multinational corporation. Herding engineers, programmers, and techs could sometimes be like herding cats, but generally went well. In teams like that, being able to communicate clearly between disciplines is paramount. Those with good communications skills made my job easy. Those without didn't stay long.
At least we haven't been straddled with mediocrity...yet. But look at all the useless degrees they keep pumping out. Graduates cant get a job so they spend another 50 grand plus to get an advanced degree in the same useless field.
BS: People in IT are not generally known for their people skills. Don't confuse diversity of experience with diversity of groups, or even if said diversity will be of use. For IT, you will be looking at IT people.
If you're the boss, you know that it's a balancing act between qualifications which include people skills. Diversity of experience seldom is of concern in IT. IT workers quickly split into two main groups. Those who are programmers and want to remain programmers. The idea of moving into management either scares them, or they see it with distaste. The second group slides right onto the management track/ladder. The two groups require a quite different secondary skills set. Even their primary skills differ somewhat. However, what group they come from (Diversity) Race, religion, or life style has very little to do with these skill sets. You are concerned with their skill set, not stereotypes which are often wrong. I think we've all worked with a programmer who had zip for people skills, but were outstanding. As long as their fellow workers could tolerate them, they just stayed in their cubical and did what was asked of them. As a project manager I worked for and with women. In those positions they were the same as men. Those in management and engineering were as different from general society as men in those positions. Getting a bunch of engineers on the same page can sometimes be like herding cats. We are talking, well educated IT people, not "the man on the street". Yes they need IT skills and usually the upper percentile for programmers. They need people skills which are seldom learned in college, and have little to do with gender. If on the upward track, they need to quickly identify problem employees and not be reticent to "have a talk" with said employee, or even terminate him/her. OTOH you don't want the aggressive military drill Sargent approach for most positions. Where I worked, people would burn out. If they had a good history, the company would do all they could to salvage said employee, often returning that employee to their original attitude and position. OTOH there are companies where you follow the "party line" or found yourself being engineered out the door. It didn't matter if you were hourly or a PHD. It was a very clickish atmosphere
These minority groups are poorly represented because there are few from those groups in IT.
It's more than just white males, it's nearly all of the mainstream, majority groups, while small, vocal "splinter" or minorities receive a disproportionate weight in hiring, politics, and for lack of a better tern, "voice" . Being PC has pretty much wrecked our industry and the educational system(through the entire grade to grad). What ever the group, they should be compared to their numbers in the field, but qualifications should be the trump card. Look at priorities and you will find the smallest, loudest groups receive the highest priority. I really don't care about a person's race, beliefs, gender, or life style, when it comes to hiring. Companies should be after the most qualified and they really do want the most qualified (or most do), but fear that should one of the small minority, non mainstream groups apply, they wit be forced to give them priority in hiring. I've seen job qualifications change from a CS degree, to a degree, to no degree, so a specific minority could be hired into a CS job. It resulted in a Sys admin/programmer becoming data entry and hiring another to fill the sys admin position. When that minority left it went back to requiring a degree in IT.
Someone asked, "What are those numbers?" From my own experiences in grad school as a GA and an undergrad with a CS major and a math minor, I'd say Google's numbers are just about what they should be. People in those groups have a very small percent in IT. (those numbers do vary with location) Society and many members of these groups expect the percent in IT to match the percent of that group in the "ENTIRE" work force (not IT qualified) , they would have way over the % of these groups available in the work force. If a couple large employers, like Google, hired the percent society demands, they would most likely have to hire 100% of those groups IT members whether qualified or not.
"We" are not manufacturing issues. They come from the outside, BUT I have to point out that most of us in IT and on/dot are liberal. It was liberal policies that brought "equality", which evolved into unrealistic quotas completely unrelated to the numbers in specific fields. The original idea was good, but politicians and powerful minorities quickly perverted it. Just like the phrase "All men are created equal", means all deserve an equal chance or opportunity, not that all are created physically, or mentally equal.
They are probably playing on an old changer with a cheap metal needle and a stack of 10 at a time, rather than a good turntable. OTOH there are those who pay huge amounts for tube "and wire" labeled as something special and 50 cent 6L6s are going for $30 and $40. Plain old #10 & #8 copper wire with a clear jacket is selling for over 10 times its real value. The 6L6s in my old Super Twin Reverb are worth way more than the amp.
You wouldn't want me to remaster anything. My low frequency hearing is way better than normal while it's down over 80 db, much above 6 KHz. At least you wouldn't be getting extra emphasis on the lows:-)) I hear nothing above 8 KHz.
For years the companies kept telling us that "accelerated aging proved..... I told people back then, that testing gives us some indications, but proves nothing. The took what they hoped was the way CDs and DVDs ages, increased the dosage by many time and said, This we pronounce the life of your CD. They didn't know then and they don't know now, but it'd be a good idea to back up those 100 year CDs at least every 10 years. If they are already skipping at 10, you probably better go to 5. If they are skipping at 5...chalk up one more for planned obsolescence.
Hydrogen takes a lot of energy to produce at present and has very little energy per unit volume. It's little different than a battery, except with more loss although you can carry more of if. Electricity is limited to range, heavy, and expensive batteries. At present, neither are practice for all around driving. H2 is fairly safe with spills rapidly dissipating. If you only do short drives, electricity is practical and relatively inexpensive. For trips, recharge takes far too long
Most scientists I've met and I worked with them every day, were not the most adept at anything outside their realm and would be the next to last choice. Last choice would be religious leaders. Many religions including Christians teach good concepts that if we all lived by them, the world would be a better place. Their basics OTOH leave much to be desired, while some are downright violent In basics and practice. "Join us or die" might not be a good greeting for a species most likely more advanced than our own. Then again as in sci-fi, they may just be looking for a place filled with useless critters that would never be missed, so they could eliminate them and settle in.
Sorry, but people and even large multinational corporations are staying with XP as it does all the want and does it well. When you take the cost of the new OS, the cost of peripheral soft ware, down time for training,cost of thousands of PCs, cost of installing PCs, reconfiguring networks, the cost runs into many millions of dollars
The individual will need to purchase a newer, faster computer with more RAM and more disk space. New computers are cheap but they will likely not only need new software, but new printers as software support for those old printers is no longer available. New printers are cheap, but ink costs a fortune.Those people will stick with XP and spew crap as long as they run.
I was a project manager and consultant. I do know how these people think. If it saves me a buck, I'll stick with it and screw the rest of the world. They could care less as to what happens because MS tried to force them to change. They will just blame MS for any problems. If they have to upgrade, it will not be to MS!
There will be hundreds of thousands of copies still running..if not millions. That leaves a hole to infect other more modern systems. XP does all those user need, they shouldn't have to update to protect some one else. There is only one responsible for infections via XP and that is MS.
That is, IF the programmers and administration are willing to spend the money and take the time to bulletproof the code. to do so, would take at least a second team to do nothing but debug the code as in FDA validation. Every step had to be proven and probably cost as much or more than the original programming. This is far from what hey required for the ACA, Had we tried to pass off that kind of code, the fines and jail sentences would have been huge. The Govt violated their own FDA requirements for rolling out that code,
It's no wonder why science is failing. Students "in general" take the easy courses. They earn degrees the would have been better off financially had the went to work right out og high school. I taught while working as a GA on my quest for a masters. This was intro to CS. The lack of knowledge was...difficult to describe. That these people were going to vote4 with equal weight to intelligent people is scary. The came out of college or a university with an education, but in many cases no more intelligent than when they went in. The old saying about sending a Jackass to college and you get an educated Jackass. Gone are the days when a degree helped. No t5he degree needs to be in a specific field and specifically a science field. They need to make passing a tough money management course a prerequisite for entering college to prevent these huge tuition loans. Can't get a job with a degree so borrow another 50 - 75 thousand for an advanced degree in the same field?. It's hard to imagine people like that ever getting out of high school. Sure college is expensive. I quit a well above average job to earn a degree and earned a full ride GA for a masters. I figured $60,000 a year was probably on the low side, but I paid for it (up front). If you can't afford it, wait till you can and make certain you are cut out for college! This approach would have kept tuition at an affordable level and a lot of people out of debt!
I have to ask myself, what does each have to gain? We know the Kotches are after money and that creates jobs, lots of jobs. What does soros gain? Remember what he said his hobbies were in an interview? Playing wit the the currencies and economies of countries. He bragged about having caused the collaps of economies of countries. Think of the misery that caused. He bragged that his next target was to cause the colapse of the US economy. Think of that the next time he offers help.
How the kotches can boost coal as it's on the way oun by natural selection? Any coal increases would only be temporary. Gas is better for the utilities and consumers. Natural gas has become very cheap! and is far less poluting than coal. NG is only 10% of what it was a little over a decade ago, or so. Wind generation of power is approaching par with conventional power. Particularly the newer installations. The Gratiot County (Michigan) wind farm has apparently been making money without subsidies since its inception. So renewables are approaching the point where they dont't need subsidies. Last year, we reached the point where China replaced the US as the #1 importer of energy and the US passed Saudi Arabia as the #1 exporter. AND, many renewables reached parity with fossile fuels. There are still many renewable companies left to go under, but we've reached some major milestiones. Solar is still very expensive. Other than coal, the interests of thr kotch Brothers are more in line with middle class Americans. Their standars of living may be different, but their overall goals benefit us as well as it does them. Soros? From his own statements in that interview, "Not so much!" It's on the net, if it, like many documents hasn't been scrubbed.
Our education system has been failing a lot more subjects than IT. Although I know the majority on here are liberals, school is not a place for indoctrination into any political belief as that is time taken from learning the important subjects like science, history, and English. We need history to prevent redoing the mistakes of the past. We need to be able to construct our writing into logical order, so people will understand what we are talking about and to get our point across no matter what your political beliefs. Being able to out shout the opposition wins no argument and loses converts.
"Common core" is far worse than bad. Their approach to math makes it overly complicated, they are weak on science and strong on political correctness. IOW they teach kids to be meek and obedient little elves. They kill creative thinking which is essential for science. Get hold of a teaching guide for common cor. Don't listen to either side. Read the manual and decide for your self. If our school system is poor with science, it will look great compared to common core.
They are dumbing school down to the lowest common denominator and making it a cheering section for the entitlement crowd.
And that is just one of many! I sometime think the average person could not understand science were they given the tools. They do not have the mental make up to understand science. Even when you take them through step-by-step, they get lost. They don't have to do the math. They can accept you do, but given all the numbers, step-by-step they still don't understand. When it reaches that level, it's not only frustrating, but a lost cause.
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The subject says it all. So far 7 does all I need I dont need to use touch screens on large displays and I do not trust the cloud, now would I ever store my, or a customers data in the cloud. The govt claims they have access to any of your data not physically in your possession so they could conceiveably track your on line transactions. Be it purchases, sales, savings, or investments. Course they could monitor any router you might go through as well.
California is listed as having over 10,000 earthquakes a year. This figure is more than a tad shy of equaling that (by over 40 times, let alone out numbering it by a factor of two. To say it's double is rediculous.: To quote the USGS: "Each year the southern California area has about 10,000 earthquakes. ... If there is a large earthquake, however, the aftershock sequence will produce many more earthquakes of all magnitudes for many months." http://earthquake.usgs.gov/lea... "
I started as a sys admin at age 50, became a Developmental analyst (fancy name for program developer) within a year, another year and a half and I was a project manager with teams. I put every spare cent into the CAP at work and invested all I could afford. I retired comfortably in 7 years. I was offered a consulting job doing the same thing from the same desk through the head hunters with a 50% raise, but no bennies. My regular insurance carried on into retirement so I didn't need the bennies. Turned it down and bought an airplane as I retired so I could could go play. Note, I had worked over 26 years as a tech before quitting and earning a degree in CS. In my old job I had gained a rep to the point where corporate was requesting me to do engineering jobs which wasn't setting well with the head of maintenance and engineering at our plant. He was adamant that THOSE were jobs for engineering. IOW, I was working myself out of a job. I was having fun and according to my boss, his bosses, boss figured I must be playing around as work wasn't supposed to be fun. I could see the hand writing on the wall. They were trying to engineer me into a bad spot. Play by their local rules, instead of corporates ...My way or the highway. I quit and never looked back, earned a 4 year CS degree in 3 with a math minor. Did well enough I was offered a graduate assistant-ship for my masters from another university. I was hired right out of grad school without having to look for a job. I don't know if I'd have the guts to do that now, but I did then and that's what counts.
I was 50 when I started on my masters at a time when jobs were few. They called me and asked me to turn in an application so they could make a job offer.
Has nothing to do with the issue. There are primaries for the parties. The members vote for who they want to run "In their party". Virtually anyone can contribute to those candidates. As long as they are "US citizens" They are really separate elections. You can vote in only one, but you can contribute to any, or all candidates within limits.
Much of society sees IT in the stereotyped large round glasses and buck toothed, geek!. We actually had one woman in our department that didn't want people to know where she worked. I think she'd have rather been called a "street walker" than a member of the IT staff. OTOH it's not just IT, but most, if not all science jobs. As the one OWSer remarked in an interview after being asked if she knew all the good paying jobs were there, why didn't she pursue a degree in one of those fields replied, "Oh, that's too hard!". IOW they want to get good paying jobs without having to work for them and there is the social stigma in schools against good grades and even more so for science. This is as much the students fault as society and peer pressure. The "nerd syndrome". They are wrapped up in their field and have no interest in socializing, writing, or communicating. They can't understand that for almost any job, it takes a well rounded individual. This shows up in the quality of applicants we see in their attitudes, and inability to communicate. Many have problems putting, complete, coherent sentences together when talking, let alone writing. They may be geniuses, but come across sounding like airheads. We used to have computing contests for high schools at the university. Invariably a couple of schools would have teams of "computer whizzes". Not once did any of them ever finish. We'd give them a relatively simple problem to solve. They could write good code, but knew nothing about problem solving. What did they think we do with computers? Recently on one of the news groups, (might have been here) a guy was complaining about the system. He had good grades and claimed to have sent out over a hundred resumes with out one answer. It was evident he lacked writing and communications skills from his comments. However he could not accept that the problem was him and not the system. He'd lash out at anyone who tried to show him how to improve. Poor communications skills, poor writing ability, and a bad attitude that was apparent in his writing. Communications skills and writing ability are almost as important as your major and can get you in the door, or prevent the most skilled from entering. Problem is, most that lack those skills are the last to admit, or recognize the problem. It's just so much easier to blame some one or something else rather than changing because that takes admitting you're wrong and takes effort, a lot of effort to change. I was a computer systems project manager for a large, multinational corporation. Herding engineers, programmers, and techs could sometimes be like herding cats, but generally went well. In teams like that, being able to communicate clearly between disciplines is paramount. Those with good communications skills made my job easy. Those without didn't stay long.
That's just like Obama...Except he keeps breaking our laws
At least we haven't been straddled with mediocrity...yet. But look at all the useless degrees they keep pumping out. Graduates cant get a job so they spend another 50 grand plus to get an advanced degree in the same useless field.
BS: People in IT are not generally known for their people skills. Don't confuse diversity of experience with diversity of groups, or even if said diversity will be of use. For IT, you will be looking at IT people. If you're the boss, you know that it's a balancing act between qualifications which include people skills. Diversity of experience seldom is of concern in IT. IT workers quickly split into two main groups. Those who are programmers and want to remain programmers. The idea of moving into management either scares them, or they see it with distaste. The second group slides right onto the management track/ladder. The two groups require a quite different secondary skills set. Even their primary skills differ somewhat. However, what group they come from (Diversity) Race, religion, or life style has very little to do with these skill sets. You are concerned with their skill set, not stereotypes which are often wrong. I think we've all worked with a programmer who had zip for people skills, but were outstanding. As long as their fellow workers could tolerate them, they just stayed in their cubical and did what was asked of them. As a project manager I worked for and with women. In those positions they were the same as men. Those in management and engineering were as different from general society as men in those positions. Getting a bunch of engineers on the same page can sometimes be like herding cats. We are talking, well educated IT people, not "the man on the street". Yes they need IT skills and usually the upper percentile for programmers. They need people skills which are seldom learned in college, and have little to do with gender. If on the upward track, they need to quickly identify problem employees and not be reticent to "have a talk" with said employee, or even terminate him/her. OTOH you don't want the aggressive military drill Sargent approach for most positions. Where I worked, people would burn out. If they had a good history, the company would do all they could to salvage said employee, often returning that employee to their original attitude and position. OTOH there are companies where you follow the "party line" or found yourself being engineered out the door. It didn't matter if you were hourly or a PHD. It was a very clickish atmosphere These minority groups are poorly represented because there are few from those groups in IT.
It's more than just white males, it's nearly all of the mainstream, majority groups, while small, vocal "splinter" or minorities receive a disproportionate weight in hiring, politics, and for lack of a better tern, "voice" . Being PC has pretty much wrecked our industry and the educational system(through the entire grade to grad). What ever the group, they should be compared to their numbers in the field, but qualifications should be the trump card. Look at priorities and you will find the smallest, loudest groups receive the highest priority. I really don't care about a person's race, beliefs, gender, or life style, when it comes to hiring. Companies should be after the most qualified and they really do want the most qualified (or most do), but fear that should one of the small minority, non mainstream groups apply, they wit be forced to give them priority in hiring. I've seen job qualifications change from a CS degree, to a degree, to no degree, so a specific minority could be hired into a CS job. It resulted in a Sys admin/programmer becoming data entry and hiring another to fill the sys admin position. When that minority left it went back to requiring a degree in IT. Someone asked, "What are those numbers?" From my own experiences in grad school as a GA and an undergrad with a CS major and a math minor, I'd say Google's numbers are just about what they should be. People in those groups have a very small percent in IT. (those numbers do vary with location) Society and many members of these groups expect the percent in IT to match the percent of that group in the "ENTIRE" work force (not IT qualified) , they would have way over the % of these groups available in the work force. If a couple large employers, like Google, hired the percent society demands, they would most likely have to hire 100% of those groups IT members whether qualified or not.
"We" are not manufacturing issues. They come from the outside, BUT I have to point out that most of us in IT and on /dot are liberal. It was liberal policies that brought "equality", which evolved into unrealistic quotas completely unrelated to the numbers in specific fields. The original idea was good, but politicians and powerful minorities quickly perverted it. Just like the phrase "All men are created equal", means all deserve an equal chance or opportunity, not that all are created physically, or mentally equal.
They are probably playing on an old changer with a cheap metal needle and a stack of 10 at a time, rather than a good turntable. OTOH there are those who pay huge amounts for tube "and wire" labeled as something special and 50 cent 6L6s are going for $30 and $40. Plain old #10 & #8 copper wire with a clear jacket is selling for over 10 times its real value. The 6L6s in my old Super Twin Reverb are worth way more than the amp. You wouldn't want me to remaster anything. My low frequency hearing is way better than normal while it's down over 80 db, much above 6 KHz. At least you wouldn't be getting extra emphasis on the lows:-)) I hear nothing above 8 KHz.
For years the companies kept telling us that "accelerated aging proved..... I told people back then, that testing gives us some indications, but proves nothing. The took what they hoped was the way CDs and DVDs ages, increased the dosage by many time and said, This we pronounce the life of your CD. They didn't know then and they don't know now, but it'd be a good idea to back up those 100 year CDs at least every 10 years. If they are already skipping at 10, you probably better go to 5. If they are skipping at 5...chalk up one more for planned obsolescence.
Hydrogen takes a lot of energy to produce at present and has very little energy per unit volume. It's little different than a battery, except with more loss although you can carry more of if. Electricity is limited to range, heavy, and expensive batteries. At present, neither are practice for all around driving. H2 is fairly safe with spills rapidly dissipating. If you only do short drives, electricity is practical and relatively inexpensive. For trips, recharge takes far too long
I don't need one more technology added that can fail. Besides, there's over 300 million out there without it.
To, Somewhere in the universe there is likely to be intelligent life.
Nice planet.Primary Indigenous lifeforms leave a bit to be desired.
Most scientists I've met and I worked with them every day, were not the most adept at anything outside their realm and would be the next to last choice. Last choice would be religious leaders. Many religions including Christians teach good concepts that if we all lived by them, the world would be a better place. Their basics OTOH leave much to be desired, while some are downright violent In basics and practice. "Join us or die" might not be a good greeting for a species most likely more advanced than our own. Then again as in sci-fi, they may just be looking for a place filled with useless critters that would never be missed, so they could eliminate them and settle in.
Sorry, but people and even large multinational corporations are staying with XP as it does all the want and does it well. When you take the cost of the new OS, the cost of peripheral soft ware, down time for training,cost of thousands of PCs, cost of installing PCs, reconfiguring networks, the cost runs into many millions of dollars The individual will need to purchase a newer, faster computer with more RAM and more disk space. New computers are cheap but they will likely not only need new software, but new printers as software support for those old printers is no longer available. New printers are cheap, but ink costs a fortune.Those people will stick with XP and spew crap as long as they run. I was a project manager and consultant. I do know how these people think. If it saves me a buck, I'll stick with it and screw the rest of the world. They could care less as to what happens because MS tried to force them to change. They will just blame MS for any problems. If they have to upgrade, it will not be to MS!
There will be hundreds of thousands of copies still running..if not millions. That leaves a hole to infect other more modern systems. XP does all those user need, they shouldn't have to update to protect some one else. There is only one responsible for infections via XP and that is MS.
That is, IF the programmers and administration are willing to spend the money and take the time to bulletproof the code. to do so, would take at least a second team to do nothing but debug the code as in FDA validation. Every step had to be proven and probably cost as much or more than the original programming. This is far from what hey required for the ACA, Had we tried to pass off that kind of code, the fines and jail sentences would have been huge. The Govt violated their own FDA requirements for rolling out that code,
It's no wonder why science is failing. Students "in general" take the easy courses. They earn degrees the would have been better off financially had the went to work right out og high school. I taught while working as a GA on my quest for a masters. This was intro to CS. The lack of knowledge was ...difficult to describe. That these people were going to vote4 with equal weight to intelligent people is scary. The came out of college or a university with an education, but in many cases no more intelligent than when they went in. The old saying about sending a Jackass to college and you get an educated Jackass. Gone are the days when a degree helped. No t5he degree needs to be in a specific field and specifically a science field. They need to make passing a tough money management course a prerequisite for entering college to prevent these huge tuition loans. Can't get a job with a degree so borrow another 50 - 75 thousand for an advanced degree in the same field?. It's hard to imagine people like that ever getting out of high school. Sure college is expensive. I quit a well above average job to earn a degree and earned a full ride GA for a masters. I figured $60,000 a year was probably on the low side, but I paid for it (up front). If you can't afford it, wait till you can and make certain you are cut out for college! This approach would have kept tuition at an affordable level and a lot of people out of debt!
I have to ask myself, what does each have to gain? We know the Kotches are after money and that creates jobs, lots of jobs. What does soros gain? Remember what he said his hobbies were in an interview? Playing wit the the currencies and economies of countries. He bragged about having caused the collaps of economies of countries. Think of the misery that caused. He bragged that his next target was to cause the colapse of the US economy. Think of that the next time he offers help. How the kotches can boost coal as it's on the way oun by natural selection? Any coal increases would only be temporary. Gas is better for the utilities and consumers. Natural gas has become very cheap! and is far less poluting than coal. NG is only 10% of what it was a little over a decade ago, or so. Wind generation of power is approaching par with conventional power. Particularly the newer installations. The Gratiot County (Michigan) wind farm has apparently been making money without subsidies since its inception. So renewables are approaching the point where they dont't need subsidies. Last year, we reached the point where China replaced the US as the #1 importer of energy and the US passed Saudi Arabia as the #1 exporter. AND, many renewables reached parity with fossile fuels. There are still many renewable companies left to go under, but we've reached some major milestiones. Solar is still very expensive. Other than coal, the interests of thr kotch Brothers are more in line with middle class Americans. Their standars of living may be different, but their overall goals benefit us as well as it does them. Soros? From his own statements in that interview, "Not so much!" It's on the net, if it, like many documents hasn't been scrubbed.
Our education system has been failing a lot more subjects than IT. Although I know the majority on here are liberals, school is not a place for indoctrination into any political belief as that is time taken from learning the important subjects like science, history, and English. We need history to prevent redoing the mistakes of the past. We need to be able to construct our writing into logical order, so people will understand what we are talking about and to get our point across no matter what your political beliefs. Being able to out shout the opposition wins no argument and loses converts. "Common core" is far worse than bad. Their approach to math makes it overly complicated, they are weak on science and strong on political correctness. IOW they teach kids to be meek and obedient little elves. They kill creative thinking which is essential for science. Get hold of a teaching guide for common cor. Don't listen to either side. Read the manual and decide for your self. If our school system is poor with science, it will look great compared to common core. They are dumbing school down to the lowest common denominator and making it a cheering section for the entitlement crowd.
And that is just one of many! I sometime think the average person could not understand science were they given the tools. They do not have the mental make up to understand science. Even when you take them through step-by-step, they get lost. They don't have to do the math. They can accept you do, but given all the numbers, step-by-step they still don't understand. When it reaches that level, it's not only frustrating, but a lost cause.