Unless they greatly redefine "consuming major media" to include things like playing video games, listening to CDs, googling things like "java how to make an object", or google "kim kardashian's tits please".
In other words, unless they define "consuming major media" to stuff everyone does every day anyways it's horseshit.
Hmmm, now that I think about it.... I watch the news getting ready for work. Listen to the radio (DSC for the win) driving to work. Listen to CDs/podcasts at work. Listen to a CD on the way home. Watch the news. Play a game for an hour or three. Watch the DVR til 10. Lather rinse repeat 5 days of the week.
While this is an eminently sensible way of thinking you're forgetting one fact. When times are tight (read: higher up's bonuses are threatened) IT is a cost sink, not a value added proposition. So you train the COBOL folks, let them learn the codebase, then lay them off. Next quarter hire more new grads, teach them COBOL, let them learn the codebase, and lay them off.
Modern management exists to suck as much money out of the current quarter as possible, never mind the customer experience (did I really just say that?) nor the next quarter's results.
I'm in a suburb of San Diego. I have parks, recreation, low traffic (unless I want to get the Sorrento Valley from 7-9 or 4-6). I walk outside my door I have grass, landscaping, little traffic. I can ride my bike pretty much anywhere within my lung capacity.
I could move to downtown SD and walk to bars, restaurants, the harbor. Why would I want to? I outgrew bars 30 years ago. I can walk in parks here, drive to cheaper restaurants, and the harbor? Phfft. Kevin Faulconer seems hell bent on destroying Seaport Village, and they've already fucked up Anthony's beyond all repair.
I write embedded software. I always run into hardware issues, some of which can take weeks to prove it's the hardware, not the software. There's no way to predict that kind of thing.
My claim to fame was an Intel Ethernet chip that came out in 90/91. It had a bug, I found a workaround. I sent a bug report to Intel, it was in errata for the chip. 3-4 years later I was introduced to Linux. Out of curiousity I looked into the driver for this chip, they had my workaround line for line.
The problem? You could build linked lists of packets to be sent. When you built the first packet you put it on the list, then set a bit saying "I got a packet to send". Problem was, that bit didn't work until a few hundred ms later. When you built the first packet you could link to the second packet, that linked to the third packet, etc.
My hack? I had an available packet of 0 bytes at the front of the queue. Chip kept spinning looking for something to send. I built my first packet, stuck it at the front of the queue, chip sent my packet immediately.
I was 16 in 1974, when I got my first real job and learned about SSI. As a high school kid who smoked pot it was clear to me I wouldn't see a dime of my SSI money.
I'm now 58 and unemployed for a few years (ever been over 50 and applied for a job? Good luck with that). I'm not gonna see a dime of my SSI money.
All I ask is the 400k+ I "donated" to the fund back, that would let me retire just fine.
Let the AI root out the rogue assholes. Ok, I know all of them are corrupt assholes, but Watson could connect the dots to let a good third of them end up in jail.
$35/month, good signal in my apartment, good signal all around town.
Some 15 years ago I drove from San Diego to Oklahoma with my sister. She had Verizon. She had signal between cities when I had nothing. Then again, she was paying twice what I was. When I got close to a city I got a signal.
Few years ago I drove from San Diego to Salt Lake City, then to Montana. Never had an issue with signal strength.
They would immediately tell Intel, Microsoft, and Mr Torvalds exactly what flaws they are exploiting so they could be closed. Instead, being the evil assholes they are, they won't tell anyone. Cuz we all know the NSA is smarter than the Chinese, Russians, and random hacker groups who exploit the same holes.
I guess it's a difference of philosophy. I want my computing to be as secure as possible. The NSA wants to hack anyone's system at anytime.
My philosophy is comment sense, the NSA's is pure evil considering it lessens my security.
I'm pretty sure the lungfuls of car exhaust will counteract that benefit
Hell, I used to bike to work daily. I had a 1/2 mile stretch that I prayed to god some dumass wouldn't turn me into a red smear on the road. Following that I had a 1/2 mile longass steepass climb I had to do.
/ 20 years ago // knees gave out on me:( /// traded my manual transmission for an auto, glad I did so
The one time I don't want people overworked are my health care peeps. When my dad is in bad shape I want you to be well rested, as well as the docs who figure out what's going on. The one thing I don't want is some doc kept awake for 24+ hours coming in to figure out why dad is incoherent and shitting the bed.
Wanna pull overnighter fixing a snapchat bug? Go for it. Overnighter figuring out Facebook so folks can't real time shoot people in the face? Go for it. Figure out why dad is in such bad shape? Get some good sleep, send someone else who has had a good night's sleep. Fuck that 36 hour on-call bullshit.
I requires people to think logically, ignoring their preconceptions. I get it, those of us who understand math have issues understanding those who don't.
Fine by me, I can check your SVC checkins for a daily idea of what you've done, or just look at your schedule vs what you've accomplished.
I don't care what hours you work, nor where you work. Get your stuff done and I'm happy. You might have to Skype in once a week or so for meetings. Just put on a T-shirt and sit in in your underwear. Long as I don't see you in your underwear (Um, assuming your a guy here...) I'm fine.
The original reason was to beat rush hour traffic. Now that rush hour starts at 6 AM it's kinda moot.
But I find most people don't show up until 9. So by getting there at 7 AM I get 3/4 of my work done in those 2 hours. After that it's meetings, random BS with co-workers (water cooler talk), and dealing with micro-managing PHBs.
It's annoying a lot of people think I'm a slacker for leaving at 3:30, but hey, I've done my 8 and I'm out.
Leaving at 1:30 would make my life a whole lot better, with pretty much 0 impact on my productivity. Hell, I'd skip lunch for those hours.
The wife and I seldom use the pool, never the gym, never the masseuse. We want a place to stay while we either spend the night, or spend a couple days exploring the area.
You want to charge a fee, charge it when I go into the pool. Or when I go into the gym. Or when I go wherever. But charge me for shit I don't use? Fuck that.
Bought it in '79. Figured out how to upgrade it to 64k by way of RAM readily available at work, um, I mean, Radio Shack. Had to fold out a couple pins and solder wires to them but it worked. Also bought a PC board for the expansion interface (disc drives, printer, other stuff), then bought the parts and soldered everything together.
Learned BASIC and Z-80 assembly, the Z-80 got me a job writing 8080 assembly at work, the rest is history.
The only assholes out there are the ones who seem to want to control what other people do. Whats next with you puritan nannies - alcohol, coffee, bubble gum?
If I drink alcohol that affects you how exactly, long as I don't drive (or post, I guess). Coffee? You wanna hang out in front of the urinal to write your app that will make you millions? Please. Bubble gum? Bubble gum under the table is nowhere near as obnoxious as smoke in the air that I breath.
Smokers and vapers are both scum that should somehow be turned into refugees sent into Syria, one to one, bringing a Syrian to the USA to rebuild their life.
The primary antisocial aspect of smoking is the risk of cancer from second hand smoke.
Um, no. The primary antisocial aspect of smoking is it stinks. Smokers stink. The areas they smoke in stink. Add to that smokers tend to leave their butts anywhere and everywhere. They are fucking obnoxious, over half don't even get why non-smokers don't like them.
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Pay some folks 20-30k a year to maintain robots. Some lucky folks in management get to make 100k.
That's a lot of robots, but nothing compared to what they're doing in China.
and their memory is swiss cheese. Got it.
Unless they greatly redefine "consuming major media" to include things like playing video games, listening to CDs, googling things like "java how to make an object", or google "kim kardashian's tits please".
In other words, unless they define "consuming major media" to stuff everyone does every day anyways it's horseshit.
Hmmm, now that I think about it.... I watch the news getting ready for work. Listen to the radio (DSC for the win) driving to work. Listen to CDs/podcasts at work. Listen to a CD on the way home. Watch the news. Play a game for an hour or three. Watch the DVR til 10. Lather rinse repeat 5 days of the week.
It's harder to enter the country illegally, so it's harder to hire people illegally, so you buy robots cuz people on welfare won't do the job.
I fail to see the problem, outside of the "people on welfare" part.
While this is an eminently sensible way of thinking you're forgetting one fact. When times are tight (read: higher up's bonuses are threatened) IT is a cost sink, not a value added proposition. So you train the COBOL folks, let them learn the codebase, then lay them off. Next quarter hire more new grads, teach them COBOL, let them learn the codebase, and lay them off.
Modern management exists to suck as much money out of the current quarter as possible, never mind the customer experience (did I really just say that?) nor the next quarter's results.
I'm in a suburb of San Diego. I have parks, recreation, low traffic (unless I want to get the Sorrento Valley from 7-9 or 4-6). I walk outside my door I have grass, landscaping, little traffic. I can ride my bike pretty much anywhere within my lung capacity.
I could move to downtown SD and walk to bars, restaurants, the harbor. Why would I want to? I outgrew bars 30 years ago. I can walk in parks here, drive to cheaper restaurants, and the harbor? Phfft. Kevin Faulconer seems hell bent on destroying Seaport Village, and they've already fucked up Anthony's beyond all repair.
I write embedded software. I always run into hardware issues, some of which can take weeks to prove it's the hardware, not the software. There's no way to predict that kind of thing.
My claim to fame was an Intel Ethernet chip that came out in 90/91. It had a bug, I found a workaround. I sent a bug report to Intel, it was in errata for the chip. 3-4 years later I was introduced to Linux. Out of curiousity I looked into the driver for this chip, they had my workaround line for line.
The problem? You could build linked lists of packets to be sent. When you built the first packet you put it on the list, then set a bit saying "I got a packet to send". Problem was, that bit didn't work until a few hundred ms later. When you built the first packet you could link to the second packet, that linked to the third packet, etc.
My hack? I had an available packet of 0 bytes at the front of the queue. Chip kept spinning looking for something to send. I built my first packet, stuck it at the front of the queue, chip sent my packet immediately.
I was 16 in 1974, when I got my first real job and learned about SSI. As a high school kid who smoked pot it was clear to me I wouldn't see a dime of my SSI money.
I'm now 58 and unemployed for a few years (ever been over 50 and applied for a job? Good luck with that). I'm not gonna see a dime of my SSI money.
All I ask is the 400k+ I "donated" to the fund back, that would let me retire just fine.
Let the AI root out the rogue assholes. Ok, I know all of them are corrupt assholes, but Watson could connect the dots to let a good third of them end up in jail.
$35/month, good signal in my apartment, good signal all around town.
Some 15 years ago I drove from San Diego to Oklahoma with my sister. She had Verizon. She had signal between cities when I had nothing. Then again, she was paying twice what I was. When I got close to a city I got a signal.
Few years ago I drove from San Diego to Salt Lake City, then to Montana. Never had an issue with signal strength.
They would immediately tell Intel, Microsoft, and Mr Torvalds exactly what flaws they are exploiting so they could be closed. Instead, being the evil assholes they are, they won't tell anyone. Cuz we all know the NSA is smarter than the Chinese, Russians, and random hacker groups who exploit the same holes.
I guess it's a difference of philosophy. I want my computing to be as secure as possible. The NSA wants to hack anyone's system at anytime.
My philosophy is comment sense, the NSA's is pure evil considering it lessens my security.
I'd have a Facebook account.
/ or at least consider most of them to be fucking idiots
I'm pretty sure the lungfuls of car exhaust will counteract that benefit
Hell, I used to bike to work daily. I had a 1/2 mile stretch that I prayed to god some dumass wouldn't turn me into a red smear on the road. Following that I had a 1/2 mile longass steepass climb I had to do.
// knees gave out on me :(
/// traded my manual transmission for an auto, glad I did so
/ 20 years ago
It's 2017, I have a blanket with sleeves for christ's sake. I'm supposed to care about a flying car?
My feeling is the GPU improvements mean more than CPU improvements nowdays.
Then again, if the game AI needs to run on a GPU, and the graphics needs to run on a GPU, um, well, dang.
I predict in 2 years we'll be buying AI cards in addition to our GPUs. If you're a gamer that is.
Seems like yesterday the wife was bitching and moaning about how much time I spent playing that game. I'm getting old, fast.
The one time I don't want people overworked are my health care peeps. When my dad is in bad shape I want you to be well rested, as well as the docs who figure out what's going on. The one thing I don't want is some doc kept awake for 24+ hours coming in to figure out why dad is incoherent and shitting the bed.
Wanna pull overnighter fixing a snapchat bug? Go for it. Overnighter figuring out Facebook so folks can't real time shoot people in the face? Go for it. Figure out why dad is in such bad shape? Get some good sleep, send someone else who has had a good night's sleep. Fuck that 36 hour on-call bullshit.
Try to find one that isn't a TravelLodge or some other cockroach infested hell hole.
What the fuck is so hard about maths,
I requires people to think logically, ignoring their preconceptions. I get it, those of us who understand math have issues understanding those who don't.
Fine by me, I can check your SVC checkins for a daily idea of what you've done, or just look at your schedule vs what you've accomplished.
I don't care what hours you work, nor where you work. Get your stuff done and I'm happy. You might have to Skype in once a week or so for meetings. Just put on a T-shirt and sit in in your underwear. Long as I don't see you in your underwear (Um, assuming your a guy here...) I'm fine.
The original reason was to beat rush hour traffic. Now that rush hour starts at 6 AM it's kinda moot.
But I find most people don't show up until 9. So by getting there at 7 AM I get 3/4 of my work done in those 2 hours. After that it's meetings, random BS with co-workers (water cooler talk), and dealing with micro-managing PHBs.
It's annoying a lot of people think I'm a slacker for leaving at 3:30, but hey, I've done my 8 and I'm out.
Leaving at 1:30 would make my life a whole lot better, with pretty much 0 impact on my productivity. Hell, I'd skip lunch for those hours.
The wife and I seldom use the pool, never the gym, never the masseuse. We want a place to stay while we either spend the night, or spend a couple days exploring the area.
You want to charge a fee, charge it when I go into the pool. Or when I go into the gym. Or when I go wherever. But charge me for shit I don't use? Fuck that.
Bought it in '79. Figured out how to upgrade it to 64k by way of RAM readily available at work, um, I mean, Radio Shack. Had to fold out a couple pins and solder wires to them but it worked. Also bought a PC board for the expansion interface (disc drives, printer, other stuff), then bought the parts and soldered everything together.
Learned BASIC and Z-80 assembly, the Z-80 got me a job writing 8080 assembly at work, the rest is history.
The only assholes out there are the ones who seem to want to control what other people do. Whats next with you puritan nannies - alcohol, coffee, bubble gum?
If I drink alcohol that affects you how exactly, long as I don't drive (or post, I guess). Coffee? You wanna hang out in front of the urinal to write your app that will make you millions? Please. Bubble gum? Bubble gum under the table is nowhere near as obnoxious as smoke in the air that I breath.
Smokers and vapers are both scum that should somehow be turned into refugees sent into Syria, one to one, bringing a Syrian to the USA to rebuild their life.
The primary antisocial aspect of smoking is the risk of cancer from second hand smoke.
Um, no. The primary antisocial aspect of smoking is it stinks. Smokers stink. The areas they smoke in stink. Add to that smokers tend to leave their butts anywhere and everywhere. They are fucking obnoxious, over half don't even get why non-smokers don't like them.