I retired from QC in '08 after 20 years. Went sailing with a friend and her BF some 4-5 years later. He'd left a job at Texas Instruments and moved from Texas to San Diego less than a year earlier. He didn't want to talk about QC, but said he regretted making the move. A year or so later went sailing with the same friend, same BF (she'd dumped her hubby of 20-30 years and moved in with the BF), and a new guy. Dude I worked with at QC in the 90s. He was debating leaving, said the company had changed once Paul Jacobs took over (which was a few months after I retired).
Christmas parties? QC had awesome Christmas parties. Cancelled.
Summer picnics, aimed at the kids of worker bees? Used to be awesome, cancelled.
And neither Ken nor Bill wanted to talk about it, but the whole vibe was more hours for not only less money, but fewer intangibles like a subsidized cafeteria and flex hours not being as flexible.
Some of you may remember John Rogers. President of Comic Con, died a month back. He was my boss. He was 100% a company man, I could not see him leaving QC. His obit never mentioned QC, the impression was he didn't work for them anymore. On the one hand, I get that. He had to be worth millions. On the other hand, he was a company man, loved his job, and I honestly thought he would die filling out my performance review. Combined with everything else I've heard, QC may not be a good place to work anymore.
Oh, did I mention the local newspaper runs an annual Best Places to Work every year? For 20 years QC was on that list. They've been absent for 5-8 years now.
Oh yeah, they've had layoffs for 2-3 years running now.
As an interested observer (I still hold lots of stock) I have to wonder if QC is driving out the 20-30 year folks who know their tech, and not being somewhere younger folks (or older transplants) want to work.
No Shit Sherlock, Trump is looking for leverage. He doesn't care how much damage he causes, as long as he gets what he wants and someone else has to pay for the damage.
Me? My whine is "why don't they give me 4 HDMI ports? I've got a cable box, game box, Roku, and DVD player. And I doubt I'm in the minority here. Yet you only offer 2 HDMI ports. What's This Feature?"
You're trying to inject American values into Indian and Chinese cultures, both of which are wildly different from ours. I don't know about you, but when I get a code of conduct, mission statement, etc etc etc I pretty much MEGO and sign/initial at the x's. I can't imagine my Indian counterpart, living in a 3 wall house with 8 other people and a milk bottle as a toilet, is going to do anything different.
Much like the Time Warner-AOL deal some 20 years ago, I don't know a single person that thought that was a good idea. At least it took 5-6 years for it to unravel.
Wasn't it just last year VZ completed their deal? And does anyone know anyone who thought it was a smart thing to do? Cuz I sure don't, everyone I talked to said VZ were idiots.
Makes one wonder what goes on in those CXX suites while the worker bees wonder who will lose their jobs.
This is similar to "undo close tab" is a security risk (in that the knowledge of previously opened tabs remains on the device/in-memory even after the tabs are closed)
Never really thought of it that way. The fix is simple. When I accidentally close a tab I know within an awshitasecond I messed up (thank you websites that 9 times out of 10 you open a new tab for links, but that 1 in 10 always has me closing the parent tab).
The fix is 2 fold:
1) Only save one closed tab
2) After 5 minutes forget about the closed tab.
She's worth much more than that, plus dad and/or the Chinese government will pay part of it. Guilty or innocent, put me in her place and I'm running home to China first chance I get.
When you're young you A) don't have much stuff; B) have friends with pickups/vans; C) are, well, young. As you get older you A) accumulate more stuff; B) Friends with pickups/vans wise up and buy cars, and/or develop back problems (or families); C) stuff hurts. You don't have the endurance. Your friends have stuff that hurts and don't have the endurance.
I remember the days when moving was a 2-3 day job. Pack, move, buy pizza/beer, unpack. Now? Maybe 3 days to pack, hire a mover, waste a day because the mover sucks, file complaints for the dings/lost stuff, unpack, buy pizza/beer you eat drink with your SO or cat, whichever.
I spent 14 years at a large chipmaker, y'all would know them if I named names. Maybe once a month or so I'd try to access a document only to get "access denied". I'd shoot off an email and usually within the hour I'd be reading that doc.
We won't mention the amount of Company Confidential stuff I had on my home PC, needed to work after hours. I didn't work from home mind you, but it was expected at my level I'd have a VPN RSA key and was expected to use it a few times a week.
Oh, my level? Engineer. Fancy word in front of it to justify my salary, but I was not management.
I think not. As a thought experiment, I'll design a 3D display that takes 2 old school CRT displays, 30" each, at if memory serves 5 lb per inch for that tech. I'll mount them each to a sheet of plywood, and join the plywood with hinges.
I can easily make a blueprint of that.
Will it work? Yeah, pretty sure I can make that work.
Will it scale to a 2 lb set of glasses that sit on your nose? Ummm
It was the 4th car I'd owned, first one bought new. Biggest pile of shit I've ever driven. Remember, this was the days of "Quality is Job 1". Within a year I'd replaced every light bulb in the car. At 2 years I went out to go somewhere, dead battery. No warning, just dead one day. Fortunately it was a stick so I could push start it (by myself, yay me!) to get a new battery. The fucking seat broke. This was when I was still a skinny ass, maybe 170 lbs fully dressed with full pockets. Took it to the dealer (it was still under warranty), basically got told lose weight. The cruise control, well, the nut holding the cruise control on the steering column loosened up during normal driving and went from the 11 oclock position to the 6 oclock position. Every time I drove it. Even after using Loc-tite. The floorpan rusted through within 5 years, and I live in San Diego (that is, no salt and not much rain).
The final insult? Had issues with sending payments so for the last year or so I'd been driving to a Ford place in Mission Valley to pay my monthly payment. Made my final payment. Driving back to work I ran over something and flattened a front tire. I realize this wasn't Ford's fault, but it perfectly summed up my previous 4 years of owning the car.
When did I sell it? After about 6 years and 70,000 miles a belt started to squeak. Took it to a mechanic, the crankshaft pulley was wobbling. This meant either a complete engine rebuild RSN, or stranded somewhere RSN. I sold the car and bought an import.
Oh, that broken seat? Was a recall, about the time I sold the PoS.
I'm on my third car since then, bought new. I haven't looked at a domestic car in 30 years, they've all been imports (1 BMW, 2 Infinities).
VCS = Version Control System. In other words, can it track a document as it
s revised, and KEEP TRACK OF WHO REVISED IT. I've wanted this in government for a good 30 years, about the time VCS's showed up. I'm so sick of hearing on the news "the added amendment..." while having no way to find out who added the amendment.
I really miss my DVR since cutting the cord. Muting ads is a poor second. I just tried watching the Saints game with my antenna, jeebus farukin christo what kind of idiot watches that many commercials? I didn't make it past the first quarter before finding something more productive to digest my food to.
In 20 years taking a toke will be like opening a beer. Musk has gotten to where he is because he not only takes risks, he spends a lot of time and effort reducing them.
So, you gonna compare Elon with the risk takers who said "don't launch" in 1986, or the risk takers who said "launch".
Built a new PC just to play the game, had a top of the line graphics card. There was a scene in HL2 where you were crossing a bridge, over an ocean. I just sat back and watched that for a while. First time computer graphics impressed me.
Imagine there are 3 episodes. Possible orders are 123, 132, 213, 231, 312, 321. As you say, 3! = 6 orders. But if I watch the episodes 1231321312 I've covered all six in an overlapping way.
If memory serves (it's been 30 years) these are called tuples, and can be handy as hell. I had a friend who forgot her answering machines login, took me 5-10 minutes to break into it (3 digits).
When I went to college 30 years ago it was clear undergrad studies were a good 10-20 years behind the times. The only up to date things were the textbooks, which got revised every 2-3 years so you couldn't buy used versions of them.
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I retired from QC in '08 after 20 years. Went sailing with a friend and her BF some 4-5 years later. He'd left a job at Texas Instruments and moved from Texas to San Diego less than a year earlier. He didn't want to talk about QC, but said he regretted making the move. A year or so later went sailing with the same friend, same BF (she'd dumped her hubby of 20-30 years and moved in with the BF), and a new guy. Dude I worked with at QC in the 90s. He was debating leaving, said the company had changed once Paul Jacobs took over (which was a few months after I retired).
Christmas parties? QC had awesome Christmas parties. Cancelled.
Summer picnics, aimed at the kids of worker bees? Used to be awesome, cancelled.
And neither Ken nor Bill wanted to talk about it, but the whole vibe was more hours for not only less money, but fewer intangibles like a subsidized cafeteria and flex hours not being as flexible.
Some of you may remember John Rogers. President of Comic Con, died a month back. He was my boss. He was 100% a company man, I could not see him leaving QC. His obit never mentioned QC, the impression was he didn't work for them anymore. On the one hand, I get that. He had to be worth millions. On the other hand, he was a company man, loved his job, and I honestly thought he would die filling out my performance review. Combined with everything else I've heard, QC may not be a good place to work anymore.
Oh, did I mention the local newspaper runs an annual Best Places to Work every year? For 20 years QC was on that list. They've been absent for 5-8 years now.
Oh yeah, they've had layoffs for 2-3 years running now.
As an interested observer (I still hold lots of stock) I have to wonder if QC is driving out the 20-30 year folks who know their tech, and not being somewhere younger folks (or older transplants) want to work.
No Shit Sherlock, Trump is looking for leverage. He doesn't care how much damage he causes, as long as he gets what he wants and someone else has to pay for the damage.
don't have a clue what you just said.
Me? My whine is "why don't they give me 4 HDMI ports? I've got a cable box, game box, Roku, and DVD player. And I doubt I'm in the minority here. Yet you only offer 2 HDMI ports. What's This Feature?"
You're trying to inject American values into Indian and Chinese cultures, both of which are wildly different from ours. I don't know about you, but when I get a code of conduct, mission statement, etc etc etc I pretty much MEGO and sign/initial at the x's. I can't imagine my Indian counterpart, living in a 3 wall house with 8 other people and a milk bottle as a toilet, is going to do anything different.
Much like the Time Warner-AOL deal some 20 years ago, I don't know a single person that thought that was a good idea. At least it took 5-6 years for it to unravel.
Wasn't it just last year VZ completed their deal? And does anyone know anyone who thought it was a smart thing to do? Cuz I sure don't, everyone I talked to said VZ were idiots.
Makes one wonder what goes on in those CXX suites while the worker bees wonder who will lose their jobs.
This is similar to "undo close tab" is a security risk (in that the knowledge of previously opened tabs remains on the device/in-memory even after the tabs are closed)
Never really thought of it that way. The fix is simple. When I accidentally close a tab I know within an awshitasecond I messed up (thank you websites that 9 times out of 10 you open a new tab for links, but that 1 in 10 always has me closing the parent tab).
The fix is 2 fold:
1) Only save one closed tab
2) After 5 minutes forget about the closed tab.
She's worth much more than that, plus dad and/or the Chinese government will pay part of it. Guilty or innocent, put me in her place and I'm running home to China first chance I get.
I'm getting SMS bombed. Twice a day my phone wakes up with some ad I don't want to see.
What changed, and how do I fix it?
Romette and Juleo, one or both transgendered, both fucked. And not in a Bailey Jay good kind of fucked more a Mathew Shepard kinda fucked.
When you're young you A) don't have much stuff; B) have friends with pickups/vans; C) are, well, young. As you get older you A) accumulate more stuff; B) Friends with pickups/vans wise up and buy cars, and/or develop back problems (or families); C) stuff hurts. You don't have the endurance. Your friends have stuff that hurts and don't have the endurance.
I remember the days when moving was a 2-3 day job. Pack, move, buy pizza/beer, unpack. Now? Maybe 3 days to pack, hire a mover, waste a day because the mover sucks, file complaints for the dings/lost stuff, unpack, buy pizza/beer you eat drink with your SO or cat, whichever.
Qualcomm doesn't make displays. Hate on QC all you want, this is a collaborative effort.
I hit pause because I don't want to see your ad. Not because I want to see a different ad, I don't want to see any ads.
How much coke do you not only have to snort, but to offer up to your boss, to make anyone think this is A Good Idea (tm).
to ensure I blacklist your site.
And * is called a Nathan Hale, as in "I regret I have 1 ass to risk"....
I shave my neck daily, why do you ask?
Everytime I left a job I'd get 3-4 co-workers asking me how I liked it, how much I made, was I happier, etc etc etc.
Everytime a co-worker left I'd drop them an email asking how they liked it, how much they made, were they happier, etc etc etc.
I spent 14 years at a large chipmaker, y'all would know them if I named names. Maybe once a month or so I'd try to access a document only to get "access denied". I'd shoot off an email and usually within the hour I'd be reading that doc.
We won't mention the amount of Company Confidential stuff I had on my home PC, needed to work after hours. I didn't work from home mind you, but it was expected at my level I'd have a VPN RSA key and was expected to use it a few times a week.
Oh, my level? Engineer. Fancy word in front of it to justify my salary, but I was not management.
I think not. As a thought experiment, I'll design a 3D display that takes 2 old school CRT displays, 30" each, at if memory serves 5 lb per inch for that tech. I'll mount them each to a sheet of plywood, and join the plywood with hinges.
I can easily make a blueprint of that.
Will it work? Yeah, pretty sure I can make that work.
Will it scale to a 2 lb set of glasses that sit on your nose? Ummm
It was the 4th car I'd owned, first one bought new. Biggest pile of shit I've ever driven. Remember, this was the days of "Quality is Job 1". Within a year I'd replaced every light bulb in the car. At 2 years I went out to go somewhere, dead battery. No warning, just dead one day. Fortunately it was a stick so I could push start it (by myself, yay me!) to get a new battery. The fucking seat broke. This was when I was still a skinny ass, maybe 170 lbs fully dressed with full pockets. Took it to the dealer (it was still under warranty), basically got told lose weight. The cruise control, well, the nut holding the cruise control on the steering column loosened up during normal driving and went from the 11 oclock position to the 6 oclock position. Every time I drove it. Even after using Loc-tite. The floorpan rusted through within 5 years, and I live in San Diego (that is, no salt and not much rain).
The final insult? Had issues with sending payments so for the last year or so I'd been driving to a Ford place in Mission Valley to pay my monthly payment. Made my final payment. Driving back to work I ran over something and flattened a front tire. I realize this wasn't Ford's fault, but it perfectly summed up my previous 4 years of owning the car.
When did I sell it? After about 6 years and 70,000 miles a belt started to squeak. Took it to a mechanic, the crankshaft pulley was wobbling. This meant either a complete engine rebuild RSN, or stranded somewhere RSN. I sold the car and bought an import.
Oh, that broken seat? Was a recall, about the time I sold the PoS.
I'm on my third car since then, bought new. I haven't looked at a domestic car in 30 years, they've all been imports (1 BMW, 2 Infinities).
VCS = Version Control System. In other words, can it track a document as it s revised, and KEEP TRACK OF WHO REVISED IT. I've wanted this in government for a good 30 years, about the time VCS's showed up. I'm so sick of hearing on the news "the added amendment..." while having no way to find out who added the amendment.
I really miss my DVR since cutting the cord. Muting ads is a poor second. I just tried watching the Saints game with my antenna, jeebus farukin christo what kind of idiot watches that many commercials? I didn't make it past the first quarter before finding something more productive to digest my food to.
In 20 years taking a toke will be like opening a beer. Musk has gotten to where he is because he not only takes risks, he spends a lot of time and effort reducing them.
So, you gonna compare Elon with the risk takers who said "don't launch" in 1986, or the risk takers who said "launch".
Built a new PC just to play the game, had a top of the line graphics card. There was a scene in HL2 where you were crossing a bridge, over an ocean. I just sat back and watched that for a while. First time computer graphics impressed me.
I use a VPN to download music/movies while keeping my ISP off my back. Who could possibly care less than I do about Copyright?
Oh yeah, that would be the Chinese.
Imagine there are 3 episodes. Possible orders are 123, 132, 213, 231, 312, 321. As you say, 3! = 6 orders. But if I watch the episodes 1231321312 I've covered all six in an overlapping way.
If memory serves (it's been 30 years) these are called tuples, and can be handy as hell. I had a friend who forgot her answering machines login, took me 5-10 minutes to break into it (3 digits).
When I went to college 30 years ago it was clear undergrad studies were a good 10-20 years behind the times. The only up to date things were the textbooks, which got revised every 2-3 years so you couldn't buy used versions of them.