in most cases just a person paid to recite text-book material for you
"He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches." by George Bernard Shaw
When I was a senior developer, I used to be sent to low to mid level programmer courses to determine if they were worth the cost, I encountered a LOT of "teachers" who simply read from the book. When you asked a question these "teachers" often would not be able to answer it, even though it was actually mentioned further in the book. I would expect a "teacher" to have at least read the book from cover to cover a couple times before trying to impart the knowledge to others. Needless to say my review of those courses was not positive, and our juniors were never sent for those courses.
But I have to agree with you, if you haven't taught yourself some programming by the time you go for ANY course, well, perhaps you should pick another career. If you don't love programming enough to teach yourself, you are going to hate sitting behind a computer the whole day, doing something you didn't really want to do in the first place. I worked with a Java programmer who wanted to be a photographer, but the money sucked, so he coded instead. Hated it, hated being there, and hated being stuck behind a desk the whole day. Any time we needed someone to go onsite he was the first to volunteer, just to get out from behind his desk. He actually was pretty smart, and his code was good, it's just not where his passion lay.
A lot of people seem to think coding is "easy" and don't realize how sometimes you can work VERY VERY long hours to meet deadlines. I have been working since 8 in the morning, and it's now past 9 in the evening, and yes, I am taking a break to eat and read some slashdot, but after that I am going back to work.
IBM are pretty much the only place to get mainframes. Mainframes are used a LOT in banks, mostly because of COBOL and how stable they are. Getting rid of people with a lot of knowledge etc. will help with the bottom line the next quarter, but after that you are going to get a lot of unhappy customers, and in the next budget decision they may not decide to go IBM but move to the cloud etc. So the years after that are going to get mighty lean.
I worked for a bank for a while, and they decided to go on a "cost cutting" initiative. We used to get free biscuits during team meetings, they stopped the biscuits. How much money that saved is VERY debatable, but you can bet there were a lot of people who were unhappy about the new "savings" of a couple bucks a week.
That is a prime example of trying to cut costs and just pissing people off for no real savings made. ie. a decision made by bean counters.
I also worked for a settlement and clearing house, I was summoned to a meeting by one of the major banks who had outsourced most of their IT stuff to India. They insisted we sent them a file twice a day with transactions in it. I told them, we don't send files to anyone, we send SWIFT messages, if they end up in a file then something on your side is putting them there. They didn't believe me and summoned my manager, who told them the same thing. They had lost so much institutional knowledge with all the retrenchments no one left behind understood how their own systems worked. That's a fuck up waiting to happen, all due to a decision made by bean counters. The first thing I would do is make sure that the bonus the bean counters get is not based on how much profit they can squeeze out of the company, and the second would be to make sure that any decision made to cut costs is not going to put the company in a precarious position in the near future. The bank that didn't know how their own systems worked, tried to get some key players back who had the institutional knowledge, they had all moved on and gotten other jobs (obviously) and every single one told them to go fuck themselves. It wasn't long after when more and more system outages and incorrect xyz started plaguing the bank. I'm not saying someone is not replaceable, what I am saying is that getting rid of everyone who knows how things fit together in the broader picture is a shit decision.
institutional knowledge, experience and dependable products be damned.
That's because the bean counters don't understand the industry, they think they can just get a cheaper and younger workforce and things will continue as they were. If they can replace a bean counter with any other bean counter, why can't they do that with everyone? Idiots, the lot of them, and it's going to end badly for IBM. Can't say I am too sad about it, since they charge and arm and a leg for EVERYTHING! I was writing front end screens to interact with COBOL on our mainframe, to increase capacity when we needed it for testing some tech would come out, flip a dipswitch (or something) on the mainframe and magically we got double the performance out of the thing. But we paid for every second the switch was flipped. When we were done with parallel production testing he would flip the switch again. AFAIK there was no other changes made, so half the mainframe was idling the entire time. You don't want to know what the cost was - something to the tune of half a million a week, I forget exactly now, I just remember being outraged by the whole thing. Oh, and don't get me started on their mess of a website, it's faster and easier to use google to search their site than it is to actually use their built in search engine.
I doubt it's via IP address, there is so much NATting going on that it would be less than useful. However since you googled on your PC while logged into your google account, do you really think it surprising that when you used your phone, which is also logged into your google account, that something linked the two? I wanted to look up the price of a wood chipper while watching a movie, after that all the ads on my PC changed to wood chippers. I spent some time visiting family, and they have a teenage son, guess what he was looking up on the internet? Well all my ads while I was there didn't change to porn hub. I am not saying they DON'T use IP Adresses, I just think it's more likely they are using something that is a bit more definite. Initially I was looking forward to IPV6 (other than typing the bloody things) now not so much, because then they CAN use your ip address.
Other than my original payment to MS for a license (and then upgrading to Enterprise because I wanted to play with VM's) I have not paid a cent more. So why do you say it's not free?
No it doesn't, it ends up full of kludges and hacks and at some point needs to be rewritten to make it stable again. Sure the new code will contain new bugs, but anything more complex than "Hello World" probably has a bug somewhere. If you want to stick with windows 7 then go for it, when the newer version of xyz software no longer runs on it you will be forced to upgrade - whether you like it or not.
I am sure there are PC's sitting in some back room somewhere that still run DOS, still do what they are needed to do and are therefore not replaced. I've come across OS2 Warp PC's and that OS died before I even started working as a programmer. There is a Windows NT4 box sitting at the reserve bank (in my country, not the US) that is quietly doing it's job, it's not exposed to the internet and they leave it alone. There was an attempt to upgrade it, but the software that runs on it only runs on NT4 (for some reason, I was not part of the upgrade so I have no idea what the problem was) and the company that wrote it no longer exists, so they put NT4 back on and left it.
Well where I live (in a third world country) losing internet connectivity is a lot more common, Microsoft have started building data centers here, but AFAIK they are still working on it. One ships anchor dropped in the wrong spot halved our countries internet speed, going full cloud is not an option for anything critical. Power outages used to be a big problem, it's all well and dandy if you're generators kick in and your routers etc. are running, just to be cut off the internet when the nearest exchange goes down because they have not maintained their generators. Don't get me wrong, we use the cloud a LOT in my current company, but it's an international company and I think a lot of the cloud mindset is creeping in from there when, we are not in a position to use it reliably here.
And no amount of backup cloud providers is going to be able to help when a backhoe goes through the internet connection. Having the servers onsite will.
And charge an arm and a leg (with me sometimes a kidney as well) to do it. The people complaining here have no understanding of "critical" systems. To me it's simple. Did anyone die? Did you make the news? Did the currency take a dive? Anything else is people whining about promising 99.9% up time without building the infrastructure to deliver it and farming off that responsibility to "The Cloud". You don't farm off stuff to the cloud when you are promising up time, if you don't have the resources or skills to do it yourself then you should not be operating in that space.
you need sufficient resources at each site to take up the entire slack from a single site
Depends on the workload. I worked for a large bank, and their failover mainframe could not handle the full load from the production mainframe. So they would only transfer critical systems to the failover when it was needed, ATM's etc. If they were in failover mode you could not check your home loan balance for instance, things that were not considered "mission critical". But then IBM mainframes hardly ever have to be IPL'ed (rebooted, for you heathens) I think the entire time I was working there they only failed over once (generators would not start during a power outage) and IPL'ed once during an update of something (upgrading DB2 I think, but it was a long time away in a land far far away). The failover was lots of fun though, the entire company basically all got in their cars and drove across the city to the failover site, had upper cheese standing behind you (that was not fun) and when I needed permission to do something all I had to do was turn around and say "I need to do xyz, can I go ahead?" The outage did make the financial news though, and caused our currency to dip a bit, but I still had a lot of fun. Linux fan boys like to say Linux is more stable than windows, and I suppose it is, but if you want seriously stable, run a IBM operating system, just sucks having to write in COBOL 85.
This is like a $700 beer bottle opener that tells you how many beers you have drunk today
Fuck, I would buy that - that's going into my idea file, I might build one someday.
My wife is always asking "how many beers have you had" and I always just guess, because I don't keep count. Probably because after enough beers I either
a) Don't give a fuck
b) Have lost the ability to count that high
Users print their plate and tape it to their window?
Hrmm, where to start? The font for most number plates is FE-Schrift - it's considered harder to change the number by applying some black tape to a 3 to turn it into a B for instance. Even if the font was readily available (not sure, did not check but I imagine it is) I would not trust the average person to even know about it or trust them to use it instead of some fucked up font like Calibri because "it looks nicer". There are also regulations on size and shape etc. which make it easier to read the number plate, not to mention the reflective layers built into most number plates to make them more visible in the dark, it's going to take a funky printer to do that. Then lets take a look at the medium most printers use - paper. It won't take long (about a year) before the paper starts showing sun damage - do you trust that EVERYONE will print out a new one to replace the fading one stuck to their wind screen? I sure as fuck don't. Then there is location, most number plate readers are trained to only OCR parts of the image to speed things up, if people can willy nilly stick a piece of arbitrary paper somewhere on their window (which one?) you would have to have at least 3 cameras on a vehicle to be able to identify it, doing full OCR on the entire car. We are busy rolling out License Plate Recognition to a large company, the lazy fucks don't want to wind down their window and use their RFID to open the parking boom, they want the boom to automatically open as they approach. We get so much garbage from the readers we had to do fuzzy matching. What I want is standard number plates - no vanity plates - and a fucking check digit so I can determine if what I am getting from the reader is garbage or not. What about vehicles with company logo's, or bumper stickers? Without being able to train the camera to only look in one place for a valid license plate all of that shit is going to end up in the database.
Then there is the hit and run issue, where I live you are not allowed to attach the number plate to your vehicle with bolts (pop rivets etc) that happens to the plastic license plate holder, and your plate clips into that. If you hit someone chances are your number plate will pop off, so if you drive off afterwards they can still track you down. How is a piece of paper stuck somewhere going to help with that?
Plates might be a bit dated, but suggesting sticking a piece of paper to your window as a valid replacement is retarded.
Zigackly! My sisters little white car got stolen out of her driveway, when the tracking people phoned her to ask "Do you know where your car is? Because it's no longer in your driveway" they then asked if she had any discernible markings on the car to make it stand out from all the other white cars on the rode (she drove a VERY common model) to make it easier to visual identify from the helicopter, she was "Erm, no I don't". So they had to rely on the locator alone (not exactly accurate) when they recovered the car she stuck a yellow Think Bike bumper sticker on it (I drive a bike) just to help differentiate it, and it also raises awareness for us two wheelers out there.
I wouldn't mind an LCD in the back window where you can tell the guy behind you to back the fuck off and stop tailgating, but my car sleeps outside in the street and I would get a broken window for my troubles. We don't even leave the GPS in the car, and my neighborhood is considered relatively safe.
I've seen wood chippers in movies before, never really paid it much attention - then in this scene Tucker & Dale vs. Evil in the movie they mentioned it by name. So I went looking, clearly the movie was not good enough to hold my full attention, but few rarely are (still enjoyed it though).
Yeah, I can relate. Did not know what the fuck a wood chipper was (they are not common in my country for some reason) and out of curiosity tried to find out what one costs. Ended up with wood chipper ads for days afterwards until I deleted all my cookies (which sucks, because I have to log in to everything again). I was on Nexus Mods looking for new Skyrim mods and all I saw was wood chipper ads.
No, it doesn't - I burn through around 500gb each month, but then there are two teenagers in the house with their own PC's downloading whatever they feel like.
Our ISP will throttle the top 10% of users, and using 500gb doesn't get me into the top 10%, I have never been throttled.
I always used to be envious of the internet in the US compared to where I am, but it looks like my shit hole third world countries internet is better than the US at the moment.
Winamp did the same fucking thing. I wanted a light weight music player that would work. Next it became a media player, then all sorts of other shit I didn't need or want in an MP3 player. Nero dvd burner also comes to mind (not that anyone uses it or needs it today) tried to take over your pc, associating itself with 90 million file types etc, and also switching it back once you had changed it. Uninstall.
Exactly, and how much integrity Pocket has. Will I suddenly get a barrage of articles etc. about "product a" because the manufacturers of "product a" have paid them money to shove it down my throat.
There are ways to build these things where you don't have to trade your life profile
No, but you are probably trading on becoming another channel paid to feed people crap they would not really be interested in, all in the guise of giving them stuff "they really want".
To be honest I just use any browser I can get my hands on, even used Edge now and then, it's come a long way. The browser that used to be at the bottom of my list was IE, seems Firefox is racing it for last place.
Where I am moving into a higher tax bracket (per year) increase your percentage tax - for the year. The sliding scale determines your tax percentage, for the year. Not a sliding percentage based on brackets within that, not sure which is worse.
While I actually agree with you, the problem is that the people in power do not want an educated populace, so a systemic destruction of the education system has been carried out. And not just where I live. Before all you needed was a high school education to get a decent job. Now if you don't have a degree you are going to have trouble getting into the workforce. My wife decided to change careers in her late twenties, with no work experience she had to move to the other side of the country to find work (which luckily was where we met). And that was ages ago, it's worse now.
But now we have an ineffective education system, math's teachers who don't know math. English teachers who can barely speak english. Out of this huge failure they are ejecting students (who barely have to attend class to get an automatic pass, regardless of their marks) and we have totally destroyed any benefit of getting through high school. So people don't. They get pregnant and drop out of school, because then they get government grants. Want more money, get more pregnant. This behavior would be "fine" if it was a small part of the demographic doing it, but when it's a large part things get a bit sticky. Currently the unemployment rate where I live is somewhere around 26%, and personally I don't trust the figure, besides that, when a large portion of the female population decide to live off of the state you are going to get high birthrates, and it's sponsored by ME because I pay my taxes. So my question is, how do you teach people out of that when getting an education is pointless, and there is a big incentive to keep breeding?
full of spoiled brats who are used to getting what they want
Erm, isn't this a problem all over the world, Millennial's who grew up with helicopter parenting and living on their cell phones? It's not just China facing this problem.
The real reason China "woke up" was because they realized that they had an aging workforce nearing retirement, with not enough replacements. That is also why they did a lot of stuff by hand instead of automating as much as they could, they had the manual labor workforce to pull it off. Now China is frantically trying to automate stuff that was done manually, because there are not enough people to do it, and a shortage of labor also drives up wages, which increases prices and makes their products no longer as competitive. It's got fuckall to do with spoilt children.
Let me rephrase the question - perhaps I was not specific enough. If there is a battery that can be used for stationary storage, which has a LOT more recharge cycles and does not have to be replaced every 2~5 years, why are they trying to replace them with a clearly inferior product? But the same sort of question is "Why do they glue cell phone / tablet batteries into the devices, forcing you to replace the entire device? " MONEY. Fuck the environment, fuck you and me, the corporations want their revenue stream. Same can be said (unfortunately) for a lot of other things, repealing net neutrality comes to mind. But now my question is rhetorical, since I answered it myself.
or you could take it figuratively as a metaphor for answering to your own conscience
That's retarded - so somehow after my body stops ticking over I am going to have an internal dialogue in which I get to argue with myself? If anything is immature it's your response. Did my comment annoy the good little christian? Go thump a bible.
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"He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches." by George Bernard Shaw
When I was a senior developer, I used to be sent to low to mid level programmer courses to determine if they were worth the cost, I encountered a LOT of "teachers" who simply read from the book. When you asked a question these "teachers" often would not be able to answer it, even though it was actually mentioned further in the book. I would expect a "teacher" to have at least read the book from cover to cover a couple times before trying to impart the knowledge to others. Needless to say my review of those courses was not positive, and our juniors were never sent for those courses.
But I have to agree with you, if you haven't taught yourself some programming by the time you go for ANY course, well, perhaps you should pick another career. If you don't love programming enough to teach yourself, you are going to hate sitting behind a computer the whole day, doing something you didn't really want to do in the first place. I worked with a Java programmer who wanted to be a photographer, but the money sucked, so he coded instead. Hated it, hated being there, and hated being stuck behind a desk the whole day. Any time we needed someone to go onsite he was the first to volunteer, just to get out from behind his desk. He actually was pretty smart, and his code was good, it's just not where his passion lay.
A lot of people seem to think coding is "easy" and don't realize how sometimes you can work VERY VERY long hours to meet deadlines. I have been working since 8 in the morning, and it's now past 9 in the evening, and yes, I am taking a break to eat and read some slashdot, but after that I am going back to work.
IBM are pretty much the only place to get mainframes. Mainframes are used a LOT in banks, mostly because of COBOL and how stable they are. Getting rid of people with a lot of knowledge etc. will help with the bottom line the next quarter, but after that you are going to get a lot of unhappy customers, and in the next budget decision they may not decide to go IBM but move to the cloud etc. So the years after that are going to get mighty lean.
I worked for a bank for a while, and they decided to go on a "cost cutting" initiative. We used to get free biscuits during team meetings, they stopped the biscuits. How much money that saved is VERY debatable, but you can bet there were a lot of people who were unhappy about the new "savings" of a couple bucks a week.
That is a prime example of trying to cut costs and just pissing people off for no real savings made. ie. a decision made by bean counters.
I also worked for a settlement and clearing house, I was summoned to a meeting by one of the major banks who had outsourced most of their IT stuff to India. They insisted we sent them a file twice a day with transactions in it. I told them, we don't send files to anyone, we send SWIFT messages, if they end up in a file then something on your side is putting them there. They didn't believe me and summoned my manager, who told them the same thing. They had lost so much institutional knowledge with all the retrenchments no one left behind understood how their own systems worked. That's a fuck up waiting to happen, all due to a decision made by bean counters. The first thing I would do is make sure that the bonus the bean counters get is not based on how much profit they can squeeze out of the company, and the second would be to make sure that any decision made to cut costs is not going to put the company in a precarious position in the near future. The bank that didn't know how their own systems worked, tried to get some key players back who had the institutional knowledge, they had all moved on and gotten other jobs (obviously) and every single one told them to go fuck themselves. It wasn't long after when more and more system outages and incorrect xyz started plaguing the bank. I'm not saying someone is not replaceable, what I am saying is that getting rid of everyone who knows how things fit together in the broader picture is a shit decision.
That's because the bean counters don't understand the industry, they think they can just get a cheaper and younger workforce and things will continue as they were. If they can replace a bean counter with any other bean counter, why can't they do that with everyone? Idiots, the lot of them, and it's going to end badly for IBM. Can't say I am too sad about it, since they charge and arm and a leg for EVERYTHING! I was writing front end screens to interact with COBOL on our mainframe, to increase capacity when we needed it for testing some tech would come out, flip a dipswitch (or something) on the mainframe and magically we got double the performance out of the thing. But we paid for every second the switch was flipped. When we were done with parallel production testing he would flip the switch again. AFAIK there was no other changes made, so half the mainframe was idling the entire time. You don't want to know what the cost was - something to the tune of half a million a week, I forget exactly now, I just remember being outraged by the whole thing. Oh, and don't get me started on their mess of a website, it's faster and easier to use google to search their site than it is to actually use their built in search engine.
I doubt it's via IP address, there is so much NATting going on that it would be less than useful. However since you googled on your PC while logged into your google account, do you really think it surprising that when you used your phone, which is also logged into your google account, that something linked the two? I wanted to look up the price of a wood chipper while watching a movie, after that all the ads on my PC changed to wood chippers. I spent some time visiting family, and they have a teenage son, guess what he was looking up on the internet? Well all my ads while I was there didn't change to porn hub. I am not saying they DON'T use IP Adresses, I just think it's more likely they are using something that is a bit more definite. Initially I was looking forward to IPV6 (other than typing the bloody things) now not so much, because then they CAN use your ip address.
Other than my original payment to MS for a license (and then upgrading to Enterprise because I wanted to play with VM's) I have not paid a cent more. So why do you say it's not free?
No it doesn't, it ends up full of kludges and hacks and at some point needs to be rewritten to make it stable again. Sure the new code will contain new bugs, but anything more complex than "Hello World" probably has a bug somewhere. If you want to stick with windows 7 then go for it, when the newer version of xyz software no longer runs on it you will be forced to upgrade - whether you like it or not.
I am sure there are PC's sitting in some back room somewhere that still run DOS, still do what they are needed to do and are therefore not replaced. I've come across OS2 Warp PC's and that OS died before I even started working as a programmer. There is a Windows NT4 box sitting at the reserve bank (in my country, not the US) that is quietly doing it's job, it's not exposed to the internet and they leave it alone. There was an attempt to upgrade it, but the software that runs on it only runs on NT4 (for some reason, I was not part of the upgrade so I have no idea what the problem was) and the company that wrote it no longer exists, so they put NT4 back on and left it.
Well where I live (in a third world country) losing internet connectivity is a lot more common, Microsoft have started building data centers here, but AFAIK they are still working on it. One ships anchor dropped in the wrong spot halved our countries internet speed, going full cloud is not an option for anything critical. Power outages used to be a big problem, it's all well and dandy if you're generators kick in and your routers etc. are running, just to be cut off the internet when the nearest exchange goes down because they have not maintained their generators. Don't get me wrong, we use the cloud a LOT in my current company, but it's an international company and I think a lot of the cloud mindset is creeping in from there when, we are not in a position to use it reliably here.
And no amount of backup cloud providers is going to be able to help when a backhoe goes through the internet connection. Having the servers onsite will.
And charge an arm and a leg (with me sometimes a kidney as well) to do it. The people complaining here have no understanding of "critical" systems. To me it's simple. Did anyone die? Did you make the news? Did the currency take a dive? Anything else is people whining about promising 99.9% up time without building the infrastructure to deliver it and farming off that responsibility to "The Cloud". You don't farm off stuff to the cloud when you are promising up time, if you don't have the resources or skills to do it yourself then you should not be operating in that space.
Depends on the workload. I worked for a large bank, and their failover mainframe could not handle the full load from the production mainframe. So they would only transfer critical systems to the failover when it was needed, ATM's etc. If they were in failover mode you could not check your home loan balance for instance, things that were not considered "mission critical". But then IBM mainframes hardly ever have to be IPL'ed (rebooted, for you heathens) I think the entire time I was working there they only failed over once (generators would not start during a power outage) and IPL'ed once during an update of something (upgrading DB2 I think, but it was a long time away in a land far far away). The failover was lots of fun though, the entire company basically all got in their cars and drove across the city to the failover site, had upper cheese standing behind you (that was not fun) and when I needed permission to do something all I had to do was turn around and say "I need to do xyz, can I go ahead?" The outage did make the financial news though, and caused our currency to dip a bit, but I still had a lot of fun. Linux fan boys like to say Linux is more stable than windows, and I suppose it is, but if you want seriously stable, run a IBM operating system, just sucks having to write in COBOL 85.
Fuck, I would buy that - that's going into my idea file, I might build one someday.
My wife is always asking "how many beers have you had" and I always just guess, because I don't keep count. Probably because after enough beers I either
a) Don't give a fuck
b) Have lost the ability to count that high
Hrmm, where to start? The font for most number plates is FE-Schrift - it's considered harder to change the number by applying some black tape to a 3 to turn it into a B for instance. Even if the font was readily available (not sure, did not check but I imagine it is) I would not trust the average person to even know about it or trust them to use it instead of some fucked up font like Calibri because "it looks nicer". There are also regulations on size and shape etc. which make it easier to read the number plate, not to mention the reflective layers built into most number plates to make them more visible in the dark, it's going to take a funky printer to do that. Then lets take a look at the medium most printers use - paper. It won't take long (about a year) before the paper starts showing sun damage - do you trust that EVERYONE will print out a new one to replace the fading one stuck to their wind screen? I sure as fuck don't. Then there is location, most number plate readers are trained to only OCR parts of the image to speed things up, if people can willy nilly stick a piece of arbitrary paper somewhere on their window (which one?) you would have to have at least 3 cameras on a vehicle to be able to identify it, doing full OCR on the entire car. We are busy rolling out License Plate Recognition to a large company, the lazy fucks don't want to wind down their window and use their RFID to open the parking boom, they want the boom to automatically open as they approach. We get so much garbage from the readers we had to do fuzzy matching. What I want is standard number plates - no vanity plates - and a fucking check digit so I can determine if what I am getting from the reader is garbage or not. What about vehicles with company logo's, or bumper stickers? Without being able to train the camera to only look in one place for a valid license plate all of that shit is going to end up in the database.
Then there is the hit and run issue, where I live you are not allowed to attach the number plate to your vehicle with bolts (pop rivets etc) that happens to the plastic license plate holder, and your plate clips into that. If you hit someone chances are your number plate will pop off, so if you drive off afterwards they can still track you down. How is a piece of paper stuck somewhere going to help with that?
Plates might be a bit dated, but suggesting sticking a piece of paper to your window as a valid replacement is retarded.
Zigackly! My sisters little white car got stolen out of her driveway, when the tracking people phoned her to ask "Do you know where your car is? Because it's no longer in your driveway" they then asked if she had any discernible markings on the car to make it stand out from all the other white cars on the rode (she drove a VERY common model) to make it easier to visual identify from the helicopter, she was "Erm, no I don't". So they had to rely on the locator alone (not exactly accurate) when they recovered the car she stuck a yellow Think Bike bumper sticker on it (I drive a bike) just to help differentiate it, and it also raises awareness for us two wheelers out there.
I wouldn't mind an LCD in the back window where you can tell the guy behind you to back the fuck off and stop tailgating, but my car sleeps outside in the street and I would get a broken window for my troubles. We don't even leave the GPS in the car, and my neighborhood is considered relatively safe.
I've seen wood chippers in movies before, never really paid it much attention - then in this scene Tucker & Dale vs. Evil in the movie they mentioned it by name. So I went looking, clearly the movie was not good enough to hold my full attention, but few rarely are (still enjoyed it though).
Yeah, I can relate. Did not know what the fuck a wood chipper was (they are not common in my country for some reason) and out of curiosity tried to find out what one costs. Ended up with wood chipper ads for days afterwards until I deleted all my cookies (which sucks, because I have to log in to everything again). I was on Nexus Mods looking for new Skyrim mods and all I saw was wood chipper ads.
More like "underpowered".
No, it doesn't - I burn through around 500gb each month, but then there are two teenagers in the house with their own PC's downloading whatever they feel like.
Our ISP will throttle the top 10% of users, and using 500gb doesn't get me into the top 10%, I have never been throttled.
I always used to be envious of the internet in the US compared to where I am, but it looks like my shit hole third world countries internet is better than the US at the moment.
Winamp did the same fucking thing. I wanted a light weight music player that would work. Next it became a media player, then all sorts of other shit I didn't need or want in an MP3 player. Nero dvd burner also comes to mind (not that anyone uses it or needs it today) tried to take over your pc, associating itself with 90 million file types etc, and also switching it back once you had changed it. Uninstall.
No, but you are probably trading on becoming another channel paid to feed people crap they would not really be interested in, all in the guise of giving them stuff "they really want".
To be honest I just use any browser I can get my hands on, even used Edge now and then, it's come a long way. The browser that used to be at the bottom of my list was IE, seems Firefox is racing it for last place.
Where I am moving into a higher tax bracket (per year) increase your percentage tax - for the year. The sliding scale determines your tax percentage, for the year. Not a sliding percentage based on brackets within that, not sure which is worse.
While I actually agree with you, the problem is that the people in power do not want an educated populace, so a systemic destruction of the education system has been carried out. And not just where I live. Before all you needed was a high school education to get a decent job. Now if you don't have a degree you are going to have trouble getting into the workforce. My wife decided to change careers in her late twenties, with no work experience she had to move to the other side of the country to find work (which luckily was where we met). And that was ages ago, it's worse now.
But now we have an ineffective education system, math's teachers who don't know math. English teachers who can barely speak english. Out of this huge failure they are ejecting students (who barely have to attend class to get an automatic pass, regardless of their marks) and we have totally destroyed any benefit of getting through high school. So people don't. They get pregnant and drop out of school, because then they get government grants. Want more money, get more pregnant. This behavior would be "fine" if it was a small part of the demographic doing it, but when it's a large part things get a bit sticky. Currently the unemployment rate where I live is somewhere around 26%, and personally I don't trust the figure, besides that, when a large portion of the female population decide to live off of the state you are going to get high birthrates, and it's sponsored by ME because I pay my taxes. So my question is, how do you teach people out of that when getting an education is pointless, and there is a big incentive to keep breeding?
Actually I think Bob the Superhamste hit the nail on the head. There are better alternatives. Perhaps I should put my tinfoil hat back on.
Erm, isn't this a problem all over the world, Millennial's who grew up with helicopter parenting and living on their cell phones? It's not just China facing this problem.
The real reason China "woke up" was because they realized that they had an aging workforce nearing retirement, with not enough replacements. That is also why they did a lot of stuff by hand instead of automating as much as they could, they had the manual labor workforce to pull it off. Now China is frantically trying to automate stuff that was done manually, because there are not enough people to do it, and a shortage of labor also drives up wages, which increases prices and makes their products no longer as competitive. It's got fuckall to do with spoilt children.
Let me rephrase the question - perhaps I was not specific enough. If there is a battery that can be used for stationary storage, which has a LOT more recharge cycles and does not have to be replaced every 2~5 years, why are they trying to replace them with a clearly inferior product? But the same sort of question is "Why do they glue cell phone / tablet batteries into the devices, forcing you to replace the entire device? " MONEY. Fuck the environment, fuck you and me, the corporations want their revenue stream. Same can be said (unfortunately) for a lot of other things, repealing net neutrality comes to mind. But now my question is rhetorical, since I answered it myself.
That's retarded - so somehow after my body stops ticking over I am going to have an internal dialogue in which I get to argue with myself? If anything is immature it's your response. Did my comment annoy the good little christian? Go thump a bible.