No, I just use Outlook at work and my own code at home since I don't have MS Office at home. I also have a G15 keyboard at home, so I send the RSS feeds to it's LCD display. It has a built in RSS feeder, but I find it a bit limited. I know the keyboard is old, I would love to upgrade, but it still works perfectly so until there is a much more appealing keyboard at a reasonable price I will stick with it. Just bought my wife a mechanical gaming keyboard, and I am seriously tempted, if I can find one with an LCD display and macro keys this one might get relegated to the workshop.
to safely store all of the removed material for millennia
This is because of the reactors we are using to generate nuclear energy, there are much better alternatives, also nuclear, but that not only use their fuel more efficiently, but they can actually use spent fuel from today's reactors as fuel. That of course is Thorium based reactors, but there are other Uranium reactor types that are both safer and more efficient, like the pebble bed reactor. So WHY do we keep building the same damn reactors that were built to enrich uranium when we don't need to anymore?
I would mod you up, but I have already commented elsewhere, so I will just add a hearty "I AGREE WITH YOU".
Look what happened to Libya, a thriving economy, well run government and America and it's vassals bombed it into a third world shit hole where children are raped and forced to fight. "Yay, well done (slow clap)"
But at least now the dictator (that America put in place to start with) has been overthrown and the people are free to live in poverty and get shot at.
They tried the same shit in Syria, and Russia stepped in and stopped it. Russia is portrayed as "the big bad bear" in western media, but from where I am sitting the war monger in the world is the US.
Yeah, and America is so innocent of anything like that. Does Operation paperclip ring a bell?
Also why drop another bomb? The first one did the trick, the second was sick.
But the two nukes were not the most destructive bombing that happened in WW2, the fire bombing of Dresden killed more innocent civilians and some refer to the bombing as a mass murder calling it "Dresden's Holocaust of bombs"
Don't even get me started with Vietnam and agent orange, and napalm.
There are BIG REASONS why the Chinese hate Japan
With drone strikes on weddings and the illegal invasion of countries there are BIG REASONS why most of the middle east hates America.
where it's trivial to burn the insution off and recover the copper.
Exactly, in my country there is a LOT of cable theft, where they rip the cables out using trucks (often while still live) pile it into a big heap and set it on fire using whatever is handy. When the fire goes out they dig into the heap and retrieve the cooling puddle of copper and sell it to the nearest scrap dealer. No degree needed, no special equipment (other than a vehicle) and plenty of profit considering the price of copper. Which is why most new electrical cabling uses aluminum, not copper, and most new telecom lines use optical fiber and is clearly marked to not contain any copper.
"The blades are composite, those are not recyclable, those can't be sold,"
Bullshit, I want my own wind turbine, I would happily buy some old blades, point me in the right direction. I am sure there are plenty other people here that would gladly do the same.
Mines - especially open cast mining, all have to have escrow to shutdown / recover the mine / area, at least in my shit hole third world country. If they do it here, you can bet first world countries do it as well.
The OP is a retard. So google killed their crappy RSS reader. They killed the READER, they did not kill all and every fucking RSS feed on the internet. There are other readers out there, even fucking MS Outlook can do RSS feeds. I never bothered with their reader anyway, I just used outlook - not my preferred method, but it works. RSS has been out for a LOOOOONG time, I even wrote my own reader once, just for shits and giggles, which is what I use at home. Trying to infer that "google killed RSS" is just fucking stupid, and shows a complete lack of knowledge on the subject.
I used to live in a suburb (and city) with a very high level of crime. I got broken into 5 times and they always left the Wii, took the XBox, the playstation any screens etc. but they never took the Wii. I don't think it's going away, unless I throw it away, and I wouldn't do that. It's so easy to crack and you can download almost any game made for it online. I may not use it much myself anymore, but I find it invaluable to keep kids occupied. Netflix also used to work on it, but something changed and it seems Nintendo no longer maintain the plugin. What is hard to find however are the individual controllers, invariably they come with another full Wii system, which is what I eventually had to buy just so that I had more controllers, it's a bit of a pain sharing the things, especially since I insist people use the strap. I don't want a Wii controller embedded in my display (or cat).
The public doesn't even care enough to hang on to net neutrality
No, the public did, those who actually understood the implications, it was the politicians and the like who had their ears stuffed with "contributions" otherwise known as bribes, that didn't listen to the public. Don't blame the public, blame your fucked up political "system". Luckily it's only being repealed in the states, I doubt that shit will fly in the EU.
Yeah, right, and if we dig deeper who are we going to discover funded this "study"?
A while back some "study" found that it was healthier drinking coca cola than water - guess who funded that one?
Why is this so "surprising" - most people don't understand how a FAT file system works when you delete something, fuck, most PROGRAMMERS don't understand how FAT works, so why is it surprising most people think that simply deleting files is the same as erasing the card? Some might go the extra mile and format it, but all that does is reset the FAT table.
P.S. The only reason I know so much about FAT is I tried to write a boot sector virus in assembler in school. Yeah, it didn't work as expected and I ended up erasing my own boot sector.
Disagree, you have clearly never ever worked on or with mainframes. The physical architecture is different, IBM uses big endian, most other hardware uses little endian, and it used a RISC instruction set, just trying to emulate that will make your little cpu in your phone burst into flames. A high end AS/400 had 32768 MB of RAM, yes - that's 32GB don't see many cell phones with that much RAM, disk space was up to 18 TB, CPU was 64bit but could address anything up to 128bit. High speed IO switching with fiber optics between. About the only thing that a cell phone will beat is the cpu clock speed, but hey, it's 30 years old - remember Moore's law? What did you expect? Although the total number of CPU's would vastly exceed a cellphones, can't find any concrete numbers on that since they tailored the number depending on clients requirements.
Agreed, HR is not your friend, they may say they are, but they are lying.
Managers close ranks when confronted, and HR are bosom buddies. I mean, it's a simple thing really. Who decides the bonus of HR staff? Management. If you think they are looking after your own best interests you are an idiot.
WTF has that even got to do with the comment he made? Seems you are just getting snarky because at least they left him "warm" afterwards. Had too many outright rejections? Stop applying for jobs you are not qualified for.
Which is why they are automating it, you won't need a "butt in the seat" much longer.
My sister works for a large retailer here (IT division) and they are busy piloting automating the "picking", the movement of cargo from storage to the truck in the distribution centers. Each year the drivers of the current forklifts strike for wage increases during the busiest time of the year, and the retailer has to get in temp staff and there is violence etc. and they no longer want to be held hostage by the human element. It's costing them millions to make the changes, but in 5 years it will save them billions.
If you are a person stuck in a dead end rut of a job, FEAR NOT - for you soon will be unemployed and sleeping under a bridge, out of that nasty emotional rut and into a real one.
This is recruiters not having enough technical knowledge to know the difference between C# and C/C++
"It's got a C in it, they must be the same"
But I blame the company, some companies start with an HR interview (fit for the culture etc.) but really a technical person should be in that interview, should actually have vetted your CV before the interview. Then stuff like this would not happen.
Well good luck with that, perhaps I am in the minority as a tech worker, but I don't like splashing my personal life on the interwebs so everyone can see when I took a shit. I do use social media sites, but for private things, not public things. You want to know where I worked? It's on my C.V. along with my references. If you still feel the need to dig through my personal stuff? Well then I feel a strong need not to work for your company. And yes, where I am currently working IS personal information. Would you like to tell everyone where you live? Splash your home address out on facebook et al? No, didn't think so. I spend a third of my life at work - normally more, you now know where I LIVE for 1/3 of my day. By updating linkedin I have just given away 1/3 of my location on any given workday to EVERYONE on the planet. Why would I want to do that?
No it's not. Doing the entire recruitment process yourself would require a LOT of effort from your own staff, probably starting with HR. Effort from your OWN staff costs you money. Time = Money, plus phone calls etc. Contract that out to a recruitment firm that only gets commission for a successful placement greatly reduces that cost. The problem there is that the recruiters tend to be non technical, have no real clue about what you are asking for in a candidate and if they are desperate tend to throw any odd thing at you with enough acronyms on their C.V. and hope that it sticks.
We used to interview and then do a technical test and then a final interview with upper cheese.
A lot of the candidates were passing the interview and failing horribly on the test (it was not a hard test, when people kept failing it they wanted to check and made us all redo the test, we all passed, even the juniors).
The test we had to pay for, so it was initially considered cheaper this way around, but after a large amount of people failing the test (after taking up an hour of at least three senior staff for the interview) it was decided it was WAY cheaper to test first, and then do the interview. Perhaps we sucked at interviewing, I don't know, it was not always me on the panel so...
We cut a LOT of the people out during CV reviews, all senior developers had to give feedback.
Job hopping, don't do it, it looks REALLY bad on your CV. It takes time to train new people, and no one wants to spend time (money) training you if you look like it's a waste of time. One or two short stints is fine, but constant job hopping is going to shoot you in the foot.
Especially when recruiters seem to think you will take any job they throw at you, even more so when you tell them your preferences for what type of company you want to work for and the general location in the city. Then they keep phoning you to go for interviews with the EXACT type of company you were not interested in, on the WRONG side of the city, then when you turn them down they act like they are a friend doing you a favor and you just kicked them in the teeth. I am NOT your friend, I am someone who is going to land you a very nice commission when I get placed. You are working for me, I am not jumping through hoops for you. I know entry level candidates etc. don't have much of a choice, but I do. Some of them couldn't give a crap about what you want, they are only interested in the commission. We were moving form one city to another, and my wife insisted I at least try get a job while still in the other city (I was thinking yay! holiday, first in 10 years, but alas it was not to happen). After the first couple of recruiters I simply stopped answering calls from recruiters who kept trying to place me incorrectly, winnowed it down to one and everything went through her. There is a very big shortage of skilled people in IT, worldwide, I might be getting close to the age discrimination barrier, but while I can be picky I am damn well going to be picky.
Well if the guy with the bag had a QR code stuck to his forehead with his WhatsApp details the sulking millennial could have sent him a message, but since he didn't he wrote a blog post about plugs. Yeah, not getting the hang of these millennials.
Agreed, and can we finally decide on ONE fucken plug type, tired of adapters for that shit as well. My brother visited from Oz and brought me an external hard drive as a birthday present (I'm a packrat and he knows it) voltage fine, frequency fine, plug on the wall wart is - fuck! Australian (of course). Go to buy an adapter and they are called "Traveler adapters" and are horribly overpriced for the function they fulfill. A couple minutes with the soldering iron sorted that wall wart out, not paying that price for something so simple. Although of all the plug types I hate, the european two prong plug is at the top of the list.
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No, I just use Outlook at work and my own code at home since I don't have MS Office at home. I also have a G15 keyboard at home, so I send the RSS feeds to it's LCD display. It has a built in RSS feeder, but I find it a bit limited. I know the keyboard is old, I would love to upgrade, but it still works perfectly so until there is a much more appealing keyboard at a reasonable price I will stick with it. Just bought my wife a mechanical gaming keyboard, and I am seriously tempted, if I can find one with an LCD display and macro keys this one might get relegated to the workshop.
This is because of the reactors we are using to generate nuclear energy, there are much better alternatives, also nuclear, but that not only use their fuel more efficiently, but they can actually use spent fuel from today's reactors as fuel. That of course is Thorium based reactors, but there are other Uranium reactor types that are both safer and more efficient, like the pebble bed reactor. So WHY do we keep building the same damn reactors that were built to enrich uranium when we don't need to anymore?
And that will be difficult to do when a lot of your politicians and bankers are Jews. That vote is not going to get passed.
I would mod you up, but I have already commented elsewhere, so I will just add a hearty "I AGREE WITH YOU".
Look what happened to Libya, a thriving economy, well run government and America and it's vassals bombed it into a third world shit hole where children are raped and forced to fight. "Yay, well done (slow clap)"
But at least now the dictator (that America put in place to start with) has been overthrown and the people are free to live in poverty and get shot at.
They tried the same shit in Syria, and Russia stepped in and stopped it. Russia is portrayed as "the big bad bear" in western media, but from where I am sitting the war monger in the world is the US.
Also why drop another bomb? The first one did the trick, the second was sick.
But the two nukes were not the most destructive bombing that happened in WW2, the fire bombing of Dresden killed more innocent civilians and some refer to the bombing as a mass murder calling it "Dresden's Holocaust of bombs"
Don't even get me started with Vietnam and agent orange, and napalm.
With drone strikes on weddings and the illegal invasion of countries there are BIG REASONS why most of the middle east hates America.
Exactly, in my country there is a LOT of cable theft, where they rip the cables out using trucks (often while still live) pile it into a big heap and set it on fire using whatever is handy. When the fire goes out they dig into the heap and retrieve the cooling puddle of copper and sell it to the nearest scrap dealer. No degree needed, no special equipment (other than a vehicle) and plenty of profit considering the price of copper. Which is why most new electrical cabling uses aluminum, not copper, and most new telecom lines use optical fiber and is clearly marked to not contain any copper.
Bullshit, I want my own wind turbine, I would happily buy some old blades, point me in the right direction. I am sure there are plenty other people here that would gladly do the same.
Mines - especially open cast mining, all have to have escrow to shutdown / recover the mine / area, at least in my shit hole third world country. If they do it here, you can bet first world countries do it as well.
The OP is a retard. So google killed their crappy RSS reader. They killed the READER, they did not kill all and every fucking RSS feed on the internet. There are other readers out there, even fucking MS Outlook can do RSS feeds. I never bothered with their reader anyway, I just used outlook - not my preferred method, but it works. RSS has been out for a LOOOOONG time, I even wrote my own reader once, just for shits and giggles, which is what I use at home. Trying to infer that "google killed RSS" is just fucking stupid, and shows a complete lack of knowledge on the subject.
I used to live in a suburb (and city) with a very high level of crime. I got broken into 5 times and they always left the Wii, took the XBox, the playstation any screens etc. but they never took the Wii. I don't think it's going away, unless I throw it away, and I wouldn't do that. It's so easy to crack and you can download almost any game made for it online. I may not use it much myself anymore, but I find it invaluable to keep kids occupied. Netflix also used to work on it, but something changed and it seems Nintendo no longer maintain the plugin. What is hard to find however are the individual controllers, invariably they come with another full Wii system, which is what I eventually had to buy just so that I had more controllers, it's a bit of a pain sharing the things, especially since I insist people use the strap. I don't want a Wii controller embedded in my display (or cat).
No, the public did, those who actually understood the implications, it was the politicians and the like who had their ears stuffed with "contributions" otherwise known as bribes, that didn't listen to the public. Don't blame the public, blame your fucked up political "system". Luckily it's only being repealed in the states, I doubt that shit will fly in the EU.
Yeah, right, and if we dig deeper who are we going to discover funded this "study"?
A while back some "study" found that it was healthier drinking coca cola than water - guess who funded that one?
Why is this so "surprising" - most people don't understand how a FAT file system works when you delete something, fuck, most PROGRAMMERS don't understand how FAT works, so why is it surprising most people think that simply deleting files is the same as erasing the card? Some might go the extra mile and format it, but all that does is reset the FAT table.
P.S. The only reason I know so much about FAT is I tried to write a boot sector virus in assembler in school. Yeah, it didn't work as expected and I ended up erasing my own boot sector.
Disagree, you have clearly never ever worked on or with mainframes. The physical architecture is different, IBM uses big endian, most other hardware uses little endian, and it used a RISC instruction set, just trying to emulate that will make your little cpu in your phone burst into flames. A high end AS/400 had 32768 MB of RAM, yes - that's 32GB don't see many cell phones with that much RAM, disk space was up to 18 TB, CPU was 64bit but could address anything up to 128bit. High speed IO switching with fiber optics between. About the only thing that a cell phone will beat is the cpu clock speed, but hey, it's 30 years old - remember Moore's law? What did you expect? Although the total number of CPU's would vastly exceed a cellphones, can't find any concrete numbers on that since they tailored the number depending on clients requirements.
Yeah, but a rising tide does not help if the boats are not seaworthy.
Agreed, HR is not your friend, they may say they are, but they are lying.
Managers close ranks when confronted, and HR are bosom buddies. I mean, it's a simple thing really. Who decides the bonus of HR staff? Management. If you think they are looking after your own best interests you are an idiot.
Any company that has more than 20 employees, what sort of companies have you worked for?
WTF has that even got to do with the comment he made? Seems you are just getting snarky because at least they left him "warm" afterwards. Had too many outright rejections? Stop applying for jobs you are not qualified for.
Which is why they are automating it, you won't need a "butt in the seat" much longer.
My sister works for a large retailer here (IT division) and they are busy piloting automating the "picking", the movement of cargo from storage to the truck in the distribution centers. Each year the drivers of the current forklifts strike for wage increases during the busiest time of the year, and the retailer has to get in temp staff and there is violence etc. and they no longer want to be held hostage by the human element. It's costing them millions to make the changes, but in 5 years it will save them billions.
If you are a person stuck in a dead end rut of a job, FEAR NOT - for you soon will be unemployed and sleeping under a bridge, out of that nasty emotional rut and into a real one.
This is recruiters not having enough technical knowledge to know the difference between C# and C/C++
"It's got a C in it, they must be the same"
But I blame the company, some companies start with an HR interview (fit for the culture etc.) but really a technical person should be in that interview, should actually have vetted your CV before the interview. Then stuff like this would not happen.
Well good luck with that, perhaps I am in the minority as a tech worker, but I don't like splashing my personal life on the interwebs so everyone can see when I took a shit. I do use social media sites, but for private things, not public things. You want to know where I worked? It's on my C.V. along with my references. If you still feel the need to dig through my personal stuff? Well then I feel a strong need not to work for your company. And yes, where I am currently working IS personal information. Would you like to tell everyone where you live? Splash your home address out on facebook et al? No, didn't think so. I spend a third of my life at work - normally more, you now know where I LIVE for 1/3 of my day. By updating linkedin I have just given away 1/3 of my location on any given workday to EVERYONE on the planet. Why would I want to do that?
No it's not. Doing the entire recruitment process yourself would require a LOT of effort from your own staff, probably starting with HR. Effort from your OWN staff costs you money. Time = Money, plus phone calls etc. Contract that out to a recruitment firm that only gets commission for a successful placement greatly reduces that cost. The problem there is that the recruiters tend to be non technical, have no real clue about what you are asking for in a candidate and if they are desperate tend to throw any odd thing at you with enough acronyms on their C.V. and hope that it sticks.
We used to interview and then do a technical test and then a final interview with upper cheese.
A lot of the candidates were passing the interview and failing horribly on the test (it was not a hard test, when people kept failing it they wanted to check and made us all redo the test, we all passed, even the juniors).
The test we had to pay for, so it was initially considered cheaper this way around, but after a large amount of people failing the test (after taking up an hour of at least three senior staff for the interview) it was decided it was WAY cheaper to test first, and then do the interview. Perhaps we sucked at interviewing, I don't know, it was not always me on the panel so...
We cut a LOT of the people out during CV reviews, all senior developers had to give feedback.
Job hopping, don't do it, it looks REALLY bad on your CV. It takes time to train new people, and no one wants to spend time (money) training you if you look like it's a waste of time. One or two short stints is fine, but constant job hopping is going to shoot you in the foot.
Especially when recruiters seem to think you will take any job they throw at you, even more so when you tell them your preferences for what type of company you want to work for and the general location in the city. Then they keep phoning you to go for interviews with the EXACT type of company you were not interested in, on the WRONG side of the city, then when you turn them down they act like they are a friend doing you a favor and you just kicked them in the teeth. I am NOT your friend, I am someone who is going to land you a very nice commission when I get placed. You are working for me, I am not jumping through hoops for you. I know entry level candidates etc. don't have much of a choice, but I do. Some of them couldn't give a crap about what you want, they are only interested in the commission. We were moving form one city to another, and my wife insisted I at least try get a job while still in the other city (I was thinking yay! holiday, first in 10 years, but alas it was not to happen). After the first couple of recruiters I simply stopped answering calls from recruiters who kept trying to place me incorrectly, winnowed it down to one and everything went through her. There is a very big shortage of skilled people in IT, worldwide, I might be getting close to the age discrimination barrier, but while I can be picky I am damn well going to be picky.
Well if the guy with the bag had a QR code stuck to his forehead with his WhatsApp details the sulking millennial could have sent him a message, but since he didn't he wrote a blog post about plugs. Yeah, not getting the hang of these millennials.
Agreed, and can we finally decide on ONE fucken plug type, tired of adapters for that shit as well. My brother visited from Oz and brought me an external hard drive as a birthday present (I'm a packrat and he knows it) voltage fine, frequency fine, plug on the wall wart is - fuck! Australian (of course). Go to buy an adapter and they are called "Traveler adapters" and are horribly overpriced for the function they fulfill. A couple minutes with the soldering iron sorted that wall wart out, not paying that price for something so simple. Although of all the plug types I hate, the european two prong plug is at the top of the list.
Well I would imagine the reason they go with wall warts is for a very simple reason, it costs less.