Slashdot is a horrible example. The site doesn't make up its own stories, they just link to others who did. Others who were most likely paid for it.
Re:It's not just laziness...
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Due Diligence?
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You're incredibly narrow minded. The government vary rarely needs a "legitimate" interest or reason to do anything. If it wants to do something and very few people object to it, then it will be done, simple as that.
We've got Federal regulations for everything from tobacco advertising to the pricing of milk in the North easy. We can all live without electricity or cars as well, yet the government regulates those. You sound like some sort of mindless libertarian who can't concieve of why the government would want to be involved in anything that isn't a direct obvious threat to a person's life.
If the government wants to regulate the security of internet servers, I don't see much of anything getting in its way.
Whats so bad about wearing a suit? Are IT workers not supposed to be professionals? Professionals who work in offices should wear suits. I mean would it kill you? Tell you what. For one day, ONE DAY, if you are not already obliged to wear suits into work, wear one. Not a crappy one either. Go out and get a nice suit, one of the $800 kind. You probably need one anyway, so you can save it for later use. Get a good haircut and a shave/trim as well. Then go to work. Just do your job as you'd normally do it. You'll feel good. YOU'LL FEEL GOOD. You'll feel like a grownup. Seriously. Just give it one day. Then you can go back to whatever you wear, if you're allowed to wear it, right now.
Asking an IT worker to wear a suit to work is not unreasonable to me. I mean, you're a professional right? Or is there still a collegiate attitude and atmosphere you're expecting? How long and how old must you be till you start dressing your age?
If doctors, lawyers, executives, politicians, recuriters, realtors, detectives and bankers wear suits why should it be any different for the IT professional? Is it because there's supposed to be some artistic individuality to the industry? I don't buy that one.
Why should they not seek revenge? Why should they rise above the levels of so called developers who earned far more then they were ever, or ever will be worth back during the dotcom boom? Why not place the blame on all the Learn HTML in 24 hours "developers" who were making updwards of $60k a year for putting up simple websites? Bah. Obviously with you the arrogant dotcom attitude persists.
So in other words don't ever pick a line of work just for the money, because working at anything just for the money is immoral and evil or in some way bad. It doesn't matter if you are doing this so you can become independently wealthy quickly and be able to retire from said line of work and pursue your own interests for the rest of your life from the moment you become rich on, no you must make sure to placate and satisify the purists in any given line of work.
You're not paid to goof off. Quit your bitchin, and your slacking off and deal.
And productivity DOES have its benefits. You can buy things that OTHER people have to make cheaply and quickly. This POSITIVELY affects your quality of life, making it higher. Look beyond the irrelevant playtime pleasures of your own workplace. Oh and grow up while you're at it.
You're a moron. Japan has been in a decade long recession because of this attitude. Their companies refuse to retool and adjust to new circumstances.
You make office shooting rampages sound like they happen daily in every major city in every state. But they're rare. Even in the US they're rare. Regardless companies are becoming experienced in how to handle layoffs safely. Post armed gaurds around the meetings and supervise the cleaning out of their offices. Increase security for a few months after the layoffs and all will be fine.
What ever possessed you to believe that it is the job of the employeer to make sure there are no stressors on the employees?
I'm going to kidnap you, tie you to a chair and put toothpicks in your eyes and force you to watch all the Star Wars movies as soon as Lucas finishes the last one.
Re:I'm so tired of the "sold out" complaints...
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Don't worry, I jumped off the tech bandwagon a while ago. As for those grey hairs, well they're the lucky ones. With all the cries of ageism in this industry they cannot consider themselves anything but lucky. Its not about stamina. Its about reasonableness. IT is an unreasonable demanding industry staffed by people who think they're supermen who are proud of the long hours management manages to squeeze out of them.
I know you're trying to push a political agenda but you really need to give it a rest. You can't control the movement of software development around the world like you can shipments of raw steel. Either deal with it or find another line of work.
IT is a horrible industry anyway. The constant unending rat race of learning new tech, convincing your bosses you're still relevant, and demanding schedules chews people up after a while. On top of that money is no longer there. At least doctors and lawyers get hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for their troubles. What does a programmer get for his?
Those skills are useless now. They were best back during the dot com boom when IT workers were actually treated with respect instead of spit on and having their jobs outsourced.
Re:I'm so tired of the "sold out" complaints...
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I understand where you're coming from. Basically you want to be the good guy before you're the pragmatic guy. But did you see one of today's Slashdot stories? http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0 2/11/13/13 3223&mode=nested&tid=163 "Re-Tooling Your Skills for the Future?"
Read the posts. There's a bunch of IT workers now looking for work because the market sucks for them. IT skills go bad real fast. You have to make your money in this business fast and quick so you can have the LUXURY of being the good guy later on. Otherwise you're stuck on an endless treadmill that will eventually wear your nice guy ass out.
Hey, the US and the UK share a "Special Relationship" so back off pal. Just because the UK has seen the light with respect to its own policies verses the usual European drivel of tax and tax some more for good measure doesn't mean its not still a part of Europe. The UK just learned sooner than the rest of you guys, and you will learn eventually, that no matter how hard you try you cannot provide for everyone and expect to produce and or maintain productive innovative socities.
I'm so tired of the "sold out" complaints...
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I guess its only the grownups and adults who can realize that at the end of the day putting a Lexus in your garage or being able to pay for private school tuition for all of your children (i.e. becoming financially independent) is a wee bit more important than "keeping it real" for some lame whiny high maintanence community.
In case anyone is wondering, no I'm not being sarcastic.
When you say you "see" plenty of examples just how closely are you looking, or even allowed to look? Do you know all the details of these marriages? Do you know if and when and with who these people may have had or did have affairs with? Unless you're living with all of these couples 24/7 I wouldn't put much stock in what "seems" to be alirght. I grew up next door in an apt building to a perfect couple, well perfect until one day the wife met some new guy at church one day and ran off with him.
My main computer is a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet that started out with a 233Mhz G3 and has been upgraded to a 500Mhz G3. I could upgrade it to a 500Mhz G4 but whats the point? It also now has 512mb of RAM. I use OS X on it.
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Slashdot is a horrible example. The site doesn't make up its own stories, they just link to others who did. Others who were most likely paid for it.
You're incredibly narrow minded. The government vary rarely needs a "legitimate" interest or reason to do anything. If it wants to do something and very few people object to it, then it will be done, simple as that.
We've got Federal regulations for everything from tobacco advertising to the pricing of milk in the North easy. We can all live without electricity or cars as well, yet the government regulates those. You sound like some sort of mindless libertarian who can't concieve of why the government would want to be involved in anything that isn't a direct obvious threat to a person's life.
If the government wants to regulate the security of internet servers, I don't see much of anything getting in its way.
Whats so bad about wearing a suit? Are IT workers not supposed to be professionals? Professionals who work in offices should wear suits. I mean would it kill you? Tell you what. For one day, ONE DAY, if you are not already obliged to wear suits into work, wear one. Not a crappy one either. Go out and get a nice suit, one of the $800 kind. You probably need one anyway, so you can save it for later use. Get a good haircut and a shave/trim as well. Then go to work. Just do your job as you'd normally do it. You'll feel good. YOU'LL FEEL GOOD. You'll feel like a grownup. Seriously. Just give it one day. Then you can go back to whatever you wear, if you're allowed to wear it, right now.
Asking an IT worker to wear a suit to work is not unreasonable to me. I mean, you're a professional right? Or is there still a collegiate attitude and atmosphere you're expecting? How long and how old must you be till you start dressing your age?
If doctors, lawyers, executives, politicians, recuriters, realtors, detectives and bankers wear suits why should it be any different for the IT professional? Is it because there's supposed to be some artistic individuality to the industry? I don't buy that one.
Why should they not seek revenge? Why should they rise above the levels of so called developers who earned far more then they were ever, or ever will be worth back during the dotcom boom? Why not place the blame on all the Learn HTML in 24 hours "developers" who were making updwards of $60k a year for putting up simple websites? Bah. Obviously with you the arrogant dotcom attitude persists.
So in other words don't ever pick a line of work just for the money, because working at anything just for the money is immoral and evil or in some way bad. It doesn't matter if you are doing this so you can become independently wealthy quickly and be able to retire from said line of work and pursue your own interests for the rest of your life from the moment you become rich on, no you must make sure to placate and satisify the purists in any given line of work.
Gotcha.
You're not paid to goof off. Quit your bitchin, and your slacking off and deal.
And productivity DOES have its benefits. You can buy things that OTHER people have to make cheaply and quickly. This POSITIVELY affects your quality of life, making it higher. Look beyond the irrelevant playtime pleasures of your own workplace. Oh and grow up while you're at it.
"Humanity" is filled with sycophants. Corporate America has nothing to do with that component of our species.
Bah. You're talking about expending more energy then is absolutely necessary. Thats called waste. Don't do it.
By the way, do you have some sort of fetish for Razor Ramon?
You're a moron. Japan has been in a decade long recession because of this attitude. Their companies refuse to retool and adjust to new circumstances.
You make office shooting rampages sound like they happen daily in every major city in every state. But they're rare. Even in the US they're rare. Regardless companies are becoming experienced in how to handle layoffs safely. Post armed gaurds around the meetings and supervise the cleaning out of their offices. Increase security for a few months after the layoffs and all will be fine.
What ever possessed you to believe that it is the job of the employeer to make sure there are no stressors on the employees?
...You've given up any kind of reasonable work to become a starving musician?
I'm going to kidnap you, tie you to a chair and put toothpicks in your eyes and force you to watch all the Star Wars movies as soon as Lucas finishes the last one.
Don't worry, I jumped off the tech bandwagon a while ago. As for those grey hairs, well they're the lucky ones. With all the cries of ageism in this industry they cannot consider themselves anything but lucky. Its not about stamina. Its about reasonableness. IT is an unreasonable demanding industry staffed by people who think they're supermen who are proud of the long hours management manages to squeeze out of them.
Real Estate. Become a realtor. You don't even need a HS diploma. The good ones can make hundreds of thousands a year.
I know you're trying to push a political agenda but you really need to give it a rest. You can't control the movement of software development around the world like you can shipments of raw steel. Either deal with it or find another line of work.
IT is a horrible industry anyway. The constant unending rat race of learning new tech, convincing your bosses you're still relevant, and demanding schedules chews people up after a while. On top of that money is no longer there. At least doctors and lawyers get hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for their troubles. What does a programmer get for his?
Those skills are useless now. They were best back during the dot com boom when IT workers were actually treated with respect instead of spit on and having their jobs outsourced.
I understand where you're coming from. Basically you want to be the good guy before you're the pragmatic guy. But did you see one of today's Slashdot stories?0 2/11/13/13 3223&mode=nested&tid=163
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=
"Re-Tooling Your Skills for the Future?"
Read the posts. There's a bunch of IT workers now looking for work because the market sucks for them. IT skills go bad real fast. You have to make your money in this business fast and quick so you can have the LUXURY of being the good guy later on. Otherwise you're stuck on an endless treadmill that will eventually wear your nice guy ass out.
Full motion video for 10 minutes until the batteries are fully drained you mean?
I already pay. By seeing advertisements I am bringing them ad revenue that allows them to function.
Hey, the US and the UK share a "Special Relationship" so back off pal. Just because the UK has seen the light with respect to its own policies verses the usual European drivel of tax and tax some more for good measure doesn't mean its not still a part of Europe. The UK just learned sooner than the rest of you guys, and you will learn eventually, that no matter how hard you try you cannot provide for everyone and expect to produce and or maintain productive innovative socities.
I guess its only the grownups and adults who can realize that at the end of the day putting a Lexus in your garage or being able to pay for private school tuition for all of your children (i.e. becoming financially independent) is a wee bit more important than "keeping it real" for some lame whiny high maintanence community.
In case anyone is wondering, no I'm not being sarcastic.
When you say you "see" plenty of examples just how closely are you looking, or even allowed to look? Do you know all the details of these marriages? Do you know if and when and with who these people may have had or did have affairs with? Unless you're living with all of these couples 24/7 I wouldn't put much stock in what "seems" to be alirght. I grew up next door in an apt building to a perfect couple, well perfect until one day the wife met some new guy at church one day and ran off with him.
I don't think he's talking about keyboard shortcuts. He's talking about how slow the same operation is on a Mac vs a PC. Its that simple.
My main computer is a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet that started out with a 233Mhz G3 and has been upgraded to a 500Mhz G3. I could upgrade it to a 500Mhz G4 but whats the point? It also now has 512mb of RAM. I use OS X on it.
The only problem is that since XP came out, its no longer a lie.