To answer you oil filter question. A screw driver poked through it.
What you described is what I call being resourceful. Engineering is more along the lines of how big a disk brake and pad do I need to stop this vehicle within 10 metres at 100km.
My wife knows my opinion about her TV watching habbits.
Based on you comments I assume you probably spend a minimum of 2 hours a day in front of a TV. Instead of wasting time in front of a television I'll do something constructive like play board games with my kids, play hockey, read on something about my field or work or one of my many hobbies. The TV makes everybody a zombie.Don't take me wrong, I have watched TV and still do at times but I find that whatever content I want to watch is available in a better format online.
I picture TV as the Matrix. If you spend more than 2 hours a day watching TV, your stuck in the Matrix and aren't living in the real world.
Don't know what kind of cars you work on but I have 3 vehicles and none of them require any engineering to work on. Unbolt and rebolt. When I repair a ball joint I don't have to worry if it's going to support the weight of the vehicle or the impact on the suppension that will occur from hitting bumps on the road. This goes from Ball Joints, to brakes, CV Joins, Transmission and Cam shaft. Most of this can be done step by step with a good old Haynes book. Heck, with little to no experience I replaced an engine in a Mazda truck within 10 hours. All I needed was a haynes book and $300 worth of tools + rental engine crane. On the other hand, to start modifying code you need to know how to program and understand the standards involved (audio/video decoding...). Anybody can program 'HELLO WOLRD' but getting involved in fixing someone else's complexe code is something far more complicated.
Don't take me wrong, your line of work does require ingenuity and I'm nowhere near able to replace people like yourself in my everyday life.
And yes, coding != engineering but designing software is a form of engineering, it's just not labelled that way. You have to make sure your changes fit within the scope of the hardware and libraries you are working with. I have close to 20 years of programming experience on different platforms and work with 5 engineers on a daily basis.
TV is a complete waste of time. There is very little programming that is worth watching. If it wasn't for having a wife that loves her shows, the only thing connected to my television would be a PBox, and an XBox 360.
They came in a market ruled by two players and expected consummers to get on their knees for the product. That just doesn't happen. They need to make a name for themselves and only then can they increase the pricing to match their competitors.
I second that. Less guns = less gun violance. Tigther guns laws also = less gun violance. Numbers where posted a month or so ago about gun violance in the world. The numbers proved that number of guns and gun laws were directly impacting the number of murders by gun.
This is a perfect example where authorities being able to shut down such online projects would benefit everybody.
2 things: - Dell will sell less Ubuntu systems than MS. This means Ubuntu is niche and worthmore from a selling stand point - Assuming MS threatened one of the biggest players in the market is absurd and sounds like another paranoid conspiracy theory
IT guys fit the systems for the needs of the users. Not the other way around. I've heard plenty of people trying to get open office installed to save the licensing cost of MS Office. All that to have the manager overrule it after users complained things didn't work the same way as before.
Oracle and MS SQL Server are the 2 main players for corporate and enterprise needs where I reside. Hosting solutions on the other hand use MySQL, Postgres and MS SQL Server
If you target working on MS, go for MS SQL Server. It's simply the best database available that runs on MS. Oracle's database and it's benefits don't outweight it's lack of management tools and poor MS installers.
If you target working on Linux, POSTGres is your best friend. I like their nice GUI tools (Much like MS SQL) to manage the DB. If you program like I do, you just want to get shit done and don't care about figuring out what that command was for creating an Index or table (Right click, Create).
If you are targetting becoming a software developper, you only need to know how to structure your data. Managing the database if a full time job in most large corporation/enterprises.
Sorry, my first language is not English as is the case for many people on this site. If you can't deal with the mistakes, go read English Literature. You come on a site where geeks rule and most don't give a damn about writting properly. I do my best to write good English and I fail at times. SO BE IT!
Thank you for the explanation on ScapeGoat. I always like to know more about the expression I use.
I wasn't stating but rather suggesting he may have been used as a scapegoat. In my career I have seen one manager get fired because he was given an objective that was impossible to achieve without outsourcing. He suggested they would need to outsource the service and the director refused. In the end he failed to deliver, they fired the manager and hired another manager who ended up doing exactly what the original manager had suggested. IMHO the director is the one who failed but to save his butt he fired his manager. SCAPEGOAT!
You speak like Americans own the world and Canada in this case. Last I checked the Chinese owned over 15% of your ridiculously large debt and over 50% of your manufacturing needs. Does that mean the US is China's bitch?
North America doesn't have a shortage yet so nobody is acting. It's just human nature. I know most major ISPs in Canada still have plenty of blocks to keep going for a while.
You guys are sheeps. You're all talking about your BSOD on Windows 7 because you want to be accepted by the wide Linux lover population on this site. I'm surrounded by Windows 7 machines (well over 40) with different hardware (high and low spec, desktops and laptops). The only time I've seen a BSOD was with defective hardware.
On the flip side, I've seen plenty of lock ups on Linux caused by bad drivers. Does that mean Linux sucks and we should all go to Mac OS?
When a manufacturer screws up, they will normally agree to eat a portion of the cost but not all if it's going to bankrupt them. It's in the best interest of the hotel to agree to a reasonnable price as the cost to replace the system is probably much more. This again depends on if the system as a whole is a failure or not.
The way I see it, a bankrupted company will give you nothing so you're better off working with them...
OS are made to customer specs. Customer is wrong end of story. Unfortunately you don't sell shit to customers if they don't get to do what they want. Why do you think Apple is losing the mobile war at this time? Because they lock users in and they cost more... Freedom and cost of purchase are the only two things most users care about.
I'd like to see what that includes on the labour side. I've seen proposals before showing massive savings in software purchases but it didn't account for anything else such as expert labour, training for the staff and the headaches and inefiencies that come with changing users world. Obviously once the dust settles it doesn't matter what software you have as long as it does what it needs to do for the business.
You either didn't try it, are too dumb to understand it or don't like change. The metro interface is identical to the start menu from before but better. I don't understand the big fuss.
So much crying coming from people who type commands to configure devices and change system settings. Jeez!!!
We are in the same boat. We are using Windows XP and have since it's launch. It's great but it's time to move so we can benefit of 64 bit and the new hardware support.
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To answer you oil filter question. A screw driver poked through it.
What you described is what I call being resourceful. Engineering is more along the lines of how big a disk brake and pad do I need to stop this vehicle within 10 metres at 100km.
My wife knows my opinion about her TV watching habbits.
Based on you comments I assume you probably spend a minimum of 2 hours a day in front of a TV. Instead of wasting time in front of a television I'll do something constructive like play board games with my kids, play hockey, read on something about my field or work or one of my many hobbies. The TV makes everybody a zombie.Don't take me wrong, I have watched TV and still do at times but I find that whatever content I want to watch is available in a better format online.
I picture TV as the Matrix. If you spend more than 2 hours a day watching TV, your stuck in the Matrix and aren't living in the real world.
I imagine you use the bus to work.
Don't know what kind of cars you work on but I have 3 vehicles and none of them require any engineering to work on. Unbolt and rebolt. When I repair a ball joint I don't have to worry if it's going to support the weight of the vehicle or the impact on the suppension that will occur from hitting bumps on the road. This goes from Ball Joints, to brakes, CV Joins, Transmission and Cam shaft. Most of this can be done step by step with a good old Haynes book. Heck, with little to no experience I replaced an engine in a Mazda truck within 10 hours. All I needed was a haynes book and $300 worth of tools + rental engine crane. On the other hand, to start modifying code you need to know how to program and understand the standards involved (audio/video decoding...). Anybody can program 'HELLO WOLRD' but getting involved in fixing someone else's complexe code is something far more complicated.
Don't take me wrong, your line of work does require ingenuity and I'm nowhere near able to replace people like yourself in my everyday life.
And yes, coding != engineering but designing software is a form of engineering, it's just not labelled that way. You have to make sure your changes fit within the scope of the hardware and libraries you are working with. I have close to 20 years of programming experience on different platforms and work with 5 engineers on a daily basis.
TV is a complete waste of time. There is very little programming that is worth watching. If it wasn't for having a wife that loves her shows, the only thing connected to my television would be a PBox, and an XBox 360.
Your not fixing the engineering behind it, you replacing a defective part dummy!
And that's why Linux isn't dominant in the PC market.
Yeah, I think you are right.
They came in a market ruled by two players and expected consummers to get on their knees for the product. That just doesn't happen. They need to make a name for themselves and only then can they increase the pricing to match their competitors.
I second that. Less guns = less gun violance. Tigther guns laws also = less gun violance. Numbers where posted a month or so ago about gun violance in the world. The numbers proved that number of guns and gun laws were directly impacting the number of murders by gun.
This is a perfect example where authorities being able to shut down such online projects would benefit everybody.
2 things:
- Dell will sell less Ubuntu systems than MS. This means Ubuntu is niche and worthmore from a selling stand point
- Assuming MS threatened one of the biggest players in the market is absurd and sounds like another paranoid conspiracy theory
Your right.
IT guys fit the systems for the needs of the users. Not the other way around. I've heard plenty of people trying to get open office installed to save the licensing cost of MS Office. All that to have the manager overrule it after users complained things didn't work the same way as before.
Oracle and MS SQL Server are the 2 main players for corporate and enterprise needs where I reside. Hosting solutions on the other hand use MySQL, Postgres and MS SQL Server
If you target working on MS, go for MS SQL Server. It's simply the best database available that runs on MS. Oracle's database and it's benefits don't outweight it's lack of management tools and poor MS installers.
If you target working on Linux, POSTGres is your best friend. I like their nice GUI tools (Much like MS SQL) to manage the DB. If you program like I do, you just want to get shit done and don't care about figuring out what that command was for creating an Index or table (Right click, Create).
If you are targetting becoming a software developper, you only need to know how to structure your data. Managing the database if a full time job in most large corporation/enterprises.
Nice to see not everybody is so serious. :)
Maybe I'll be a black sheep too and use Escape Goat.
Sorry, my first language is not English as is the case for many people on this site. If you can't deal with the mistakes, go read English Literature. You come on a site where geeks rule and most don't give a damn about writting properly. I do my best to write good English and I fail at times. SO BE IT!
Thank you for the explanation on ScapeGoat. I always like to know more about the expression I use.
I wasn't stating but rather suggesting he may have been used as a scapegoat. In my career I have seen one manager get fired because he was given an objective that was impossible to achieve without outsourcing. He suggested they would need to outsource the service and the director refused. In the end he failed to deliver, they fired the manager and hired another manager who ended up doing exactly what the original manager had suggested. IMHO the director is the one who failed but to save his butt he fired his manager. SCAPEGOAT!
Thanks. I'm French and honestly didn't know. Scapegoat looks better on paper :)
LOL at your comment.
You speak like Americans own the world and Canada in this case. Last I checked the Chinese owned over 15% of your ridiculously large debt and over 50% of your manufacturing needs. Does that mean the US is China's bitch?
Was this guy setup for failure by having to meeting google map standards overnight?
Firing people sometimes is an escape goat for companies mistakes.
It's not a good comparasion. Changing measure systems doesn't stop people from measuring. On the other hand, more IP blocks can be a show stopper.
North America doesn't have a shortage yet so nobody is acting. It's just human nature. I know most major ISPs in Canada still have plenty of blocks to keep going for a while.
You guys are sheeps. You're all talking about your BSOD on Windows 7 because you want to be accepted by the wide Linux lover population on this site. I'm surrounded by Windows 7 machines (well over 40) with different hardware (high and low spec, desktops and laptops). The only time I've seen a BSOD was with defective hardware.
On the flip side, I've seen plenty of lock ups on Linux caused by bad drivers. Does that mean Linux sucks and we should all go to Mac OS?
When a manufacturer screws up, they will normally agree to eat a portion of the cost but not all if it's going to bankrupt them. It's in the best interest of the hotel to agree to a reasonnable price as the cost to replace the system is probably much more. This again depends on if the system as a whole is a failure or not.
The way I see it, a bankrupted company will give you nothing so you're better off working with them...
OS are made to customer specs. Customer is wrong end of story. Unfortunately you don't sell shit to customers if they don't get to do what they want. Why do you think Apple is losing the mobile war at this time? Because they lock users in and they cost more... Freedom and cost of purchase are the only two things most users care about.
I'd like to see what that includes on the labour side. I've seen proposals before showing massive savings in software purchases but it didn't account for anything else such as expert labour, training for the staff and the headaches and inefiencies that come with changing users world. Obviously once the dust settles it doesn't matter what software you have as long as it does what it needs to do for the business.
You either didn't try it, are too dumb to understand it or don't like change. The metro interface is identical to the start menu from before but better. I don't understand the big fuss.
So much crying coming from people who type commands to configure devices and change system settings. Jeez!!!
We are in the same boat. We are using Windows XP and have since it's launch. It's great but it's time to move so we can benefit of 64 bit and the new hardware support.