Yes, he showed up for 8 years and made Jimmy Carter look like a great President.
You obviously weren't around when Carter was president. Obama was ten times better of a president than Carter was. I just wish Bill Clinton could run again.
This is the average for all computer science majors. It is very consistent with just about every other salary survey on the subject, if not a little on the high side. Do not put too much stake in the slashdot bubble comments claiming that every code monkey is making mid-six-figures. These are coming from the same people who all claim to be over 6'4" tall with IQ180.
I'm a 22-year old Slavic Studies major who last year took a 5-day bootcamp in web development.
Now I make over $400K as a principal architect for Microsoft!
Hell truck drivers are in massive demand right now. I wouldn't bank on it for a long term career but if you need money can pass a CDL it'll get you to the next phase of your life.
Hell, I almost had to go to that line of work if I hadn't landed the position I just now got. Was starting to put out emails and requests for information about tuition, etc.
Have over 16 years in IT and the pickings were getting slim in this part of the country (Western Ark) for jobs that paid worth a darn. Most of the manufacturing jobs have left for Mexico and about the only jobs in abundance were either fast food or processing chickens.
Millenials are cheap, because there are no fucking jobs out there for them. Anyone born before 1965 could go into -any- profession and earn a living. A college degree helped as well. Come the 1980s, you could still get a good job with any major. Post 2000, especially 2008, you could have a PhD in your field, and you will not be finding work, because the only thing that matters is recent experience. That, or a H-1B.
Why are you targeting millennial with your comment? They don't have a monopoly on cheapness. Hell, if anything, the Boomers are *worse* cause they got it better than any generation before or since, and get pissy when anyone pushes back on their entitled attitude.
Older Gen-X here......I appreciate free stuff whenever I get it. I am only cheap when I am BROKE. If I have the funds, I will gladly pay extra for nicer things and features...
Don't link to the NYT fucker. Aside from being a leftist piece of trash,
I've heard a lot of right-leaning people complain about the New York Times. I haven't, however, seen any evidence that they aren't a good source of information.
they limit the number of articles they allow you to see each month.
It's bad enough that millennial assholes think that it's a crime if everything on the internet is not free, free, free. Reporters shouldn't be paid, they should work for the love of it. (and for the "exposure").
But now, when the New York Times actually is giving away their content for free, the millennial assholes are complaining that they are not getting enough content for free.
That's due to the underlying infrastructure, not the technology itself. In Canada, and most of the developed world, chip+pin transactions are virtually instantaneous. For small amounts, the NFC/touch pay is also pretty much instantaneous. It boggles my mind that transactions are so slow in the US... hell, when I travel to Europe, my Canadian chip card is no slower than it is in Canada, so it shouldn't take that long to process.
I agree. Used to when I watched other people use chip cards, most of the delay was due to them not paying attention to the card terminal and answering the prompts quickly or having the cashier to prompt them to do something. When most people (mostly old folks) see anything related to computers, they vapor-lock and are terrified of breaking something. And then they go to Wally World and use the SELF CHECKOUTS which is another eternity of waiting. SMH.
My bank FINALLY issued me a chip card recently and I find it is just as fast or faster than swiping. Referring to the infrastructure, I always shake my head when a restaurant or store has a card machine attached to a dial-up modem. Most establishments have internet access via broadband and the newer card terminals have Ethernet connections, which makes transactions almost instantaneous.
I tried to get my mother (in her 80s but, for all that, pretty tech-friendly) Netflix for her birthday, which with her 8-year-old not-Smart flatscreen would have meant a Roku box. After I explained it (for the 5th time in my life, I think), she finally announced "I don't want that stuff on my TV. It's too much." Calling it "just a computer" would not have helped. In this case, I think if it didn't require a change of HDMI input when using it she might have gone for it.
Also, even with the Chromecast, you have to control it from your mobile device or computer, and now for some people that's an entire different category of complexity from using a cable remote.
Exactly the point I was trying to make, @houstonbofh! Any change from their normal routine of using a TV totally strips their gears....:(
Amen to that. Is hooking up a cheap media box via HDMI so difficult to do these days?
To a lot of people, unfortunately yes. You go to your elder relative or cousin and rattle off that sentence above, they throw up their hands and exclaim "Hey! Whoa! I ain't one of those computer geniuses!!"
It is literally rocket surgery to them...:(
And you answer, "It is just a computer like on your desk, but smaller so you can stick it behind the TV." Then watch the lightbulb come on.
Nope......it doesn't happen that way. Once you mention 'computer', they will avoid touching that device like it was the Elephant's Foot at Chernobyl and ask you to install it.....then spend the rest of the evening explaining to them how to use it.... (sigh)
Amen to that. Is hooking up a cheap media box via HDMI so difficult to do these days?
To a lot of people, unfortunately yes. You go to your elder relative or cousin and rattle off that sentence above, they throw up their hands and exclaim "Hey! Whoa! I ain't one of those computer geniuses!!"
People need a purpose in life. If we are going to be displaced from our jobs, then we need a different purpose. Being freed from repetitive, menial labor should allow us to do something more meaningful. Just putting ever more listless people into a lifelong holding pattern is not the right answer.
Most of the time, doing something 'meaningful' like being able to take art classes or traveling the world requires MONEY. Kinda hard to do those things when you are broke and cannot afford to buy them (the trip or the class)...
Our company set up our mail system to insert this line into ANY incoming external email. Has helped us a LOT with reducing the impact of phishing emails...along with filtering known phishing domains......
>>Attention: This email was sent from someone outside of [your company name here]. Always use caution when opening attachments or clicking links from unknown senders or when receiving unexpected emails.
Maybe this would be a good time to rearm Japan. I suspect that would give China something to think about.
From recent articles I have read, Japan is pretty heavily armed already. But until recently, they could only use those weapons for self-defense.
According to this article, the new Japanese Prime Minister and his allies in goverment want to change their constitution to give them more power to use that military might. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
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Yes, he showed up for 8 years and made Jimmy Carter look like a great President.
You obviously weren't around when Carter was president. Obama was ten times better of a president than Carter was. I just wish Bill Clinton could run again.
This is the average for all computer science majors. It is very consistent with just about every other salary survey on the subject, if not a little on the high side. Do not put too much stake in the slashdot bubble comments claiming that every code monkey is making mid-six-figures. These are coming from the same people who all claim to be over 6'4" tall with IQ180.
I'm a 22-year old Slavic Studies major who last year took a 5-day bootcamp in web development.
Now I make over $400K as a principal architect for Microsoft!
And you are trolling...
He could have gone ORBITAL, but he didn't. So maybe he's not *that* worried after all.
I think you are talking about Bezos.
Hell truck drivers are in massive demand right now. I wouldn't bank on it for a long term career but if you need money can pass a CDL it'll get you to the next phase of your life.
Hell, I almost had to go to that line of work if I hadn't landed the position I just now got. Was starting to put out emails and requests for information about tuition, etc.
Have over 16 years in IT and the pickings were getting slim in this part of the country (Western Ark) for jobs that paid worth a darn. Most of the manufacturing jobs have left for Mexico and about the only jobs in abundance were either fast food or processing chickens.
Millenials are cheap, because there are no fucking jobs out there for them. Anyone born before 1965 could go into -any- profession and earn a living. A college degree helped as well. Come the 1980s, you could still get a good job with any major. Post 2000, especially 2008, you could have a PhD in your field, and you will not be finding work, because the only thing that matters is recent experience. That, or a H-1B.
Usually the H1B. Don't have to pay them as much.
Why are you targeting millennial with your comment? They don't have a monopoly on cheapness. Hell, if anything, the Boomers are *worse* cause they got it better than any generation before or since, and get pissy when anyone pushes back on their entitled attitude.
Older Gen-X here......I appreciate free stuff whenever I get it. I am only cheap when I am BROKE. If I have the funds, I will gladly pay extra for nicer things and features...
Don't link to the NYT fucker. Aside from being a leftist piece of trash,
I've heard a lot of right-leaning people complain about the New York Times. I haven't, however, seen any evidence that they aren't a good source of information.
they limit the number of articles they allow you to see each month.
It's bad enough that millennial assholes think that it's a crime if everything on the internet is not free, free, free. Reporters shouldn't be paid, they should work for the love of it. (and for the "exposure").
But now, when the New York Times actually is giving away their content for free, the millennial assholes are complaining that they are not getting enough content for free.
Snowflakes have gotta bitch about something.... :/
That's due to the underlying infrastructure, not the technology itself. In Canada, and most of the developed world, chip+pin transactions are virtually instantaneous. For small amounts, the NFC/touch pay is also pretty much instantaneous. It boggles my mind that transactions are so slow in the US... hell, when I travel to Europe, my Canadian chip card is no slower than it is in Canada, so it shouldn't take that long to process.
I agree. Used to when I watched other people use chip cards, most of the delay was due to them not paying attention to the card terminal and answering the prompts quickly or having the cashier to prompt them to do something. When most people (mostly old folks) see anything related to computers, they vapor-lock and are terrified of breaking something. And then they go to Wally World and use the SELF CHECKOUTS which is another eternity of waiting. SMH.
My bank FINALLY issued me a chip card recently and I find it is just as fast or faster than swiping. Referring to the infrastructure, I always shake my head when a restaurant or store has a card machine attached to a dial-up modem. Most establishments have internet access via broadband and the newer card terminals have Ethernet connections, which makes transactions almost instantaneous.
What's a 'Cisco Meraki'? What's a 'cloud managed IT service'? Can we get these described with real words, and not marketing babble?
If you don't know what that name means, it means you are not in the IT field and it shouldn't concern you.
I DO!
I'm not sure, but it looks like you missed the Monty Python reference......
TI-99/4a....
Oooooohhh! That dox, tho! Splendid!
To be a pnemonic courier with this tech.....could probably encode it into your bloodstream or implant a capsule under your skin...
I tried to get my mother (in her 80s but, for all that, pretty tech-friendly) Netflix for her birthday, which with her 8-year-old not-Smart flatscreen would have meant a Roku box. After I explained it (for the 5th time in my life, I think), she finally announced "I don't want that stuff on my TV. It's too much." Calling it "just a computer" would not have helped. In this case, I think if it didn't require a change of HDMI input when using it she might have gone for it.
Also, even with the Chromecast, you have to control it from your mobile device or computer, and now for some people that's an entire different category of complexity from using a cable remote.
Exactly the point I was trying to make, @houstonbofh! Any change from their normal routine of using a TV totally strips their gears.... :(
Awesome post BTW @porges!
All I want is a dumb display!
Amen to that. Is hooking up a cheap media box via HDMI so difficult to do these days?
To a lot of people, unfortunately yes. You go to your elder relative or cousin and rattle off that sentence above, they throw up their hands and exclaim "Hey! Whoa! I ain't one of those computer geniuses!!"
It is literally rocket surgery to them... :(
And you answer, "It is just a computer like on your desk, but smaller so you can stick it behind the TV." Then watch the lightbulb come on.
Nope......it doesn't happen that way. Once you mention 'computer', they will avoid touching that device like it was the Elephant's Foot at Chernobyl and ask you to install it.....then spend the rest of the evening explaining to them how to use it.... (sigh)
All I want is a dumb display!
Amen to that. Is hooking up a cheap media box via HDMI so difficult to do these days?
To a lot of people, unfortunately yes. You go to your elder relative or cousin and rattle off that sentence above, they throw up their hands and exclaim "Hey! Whoa! I ain't one of those computer geniuses!!"
It is literally rocket surgery to them... :(
Huh. I guess uBlock isn't working. I can still see this ad.
This is not remotely news.
The smug is strong with this one..
I tend to forget to return those things in timely manner, which gets pretty expensive fast.
Sounds like a personal problem to me....
"White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Horse Shoe Makers Displaced by Automobiles"
Just shut the hell up....mod redundant.
People need a purpose in life. If we are going to be displaced from our jobs, then we need a different purpose. Being freed from repetitive, menial labor should allow us to do something more meaningful. Just putting ever more listless people into a lifelong holding pattern is not the right answer.
Most of the time, doing something 'meaningful' like being able to take art classes or traveling the world requires MONEY. Kinda hard to do those things when you are broke and cannot afford to buy them (the trip or the class)...
...did the tweet actually cause him to have a seizure? Or did it just hurt his feelings?
It caused him to seize! The person responsible should be brought up on assault charges at the very least...
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1...
That site can't die fast enough.....
I would like to have a society that isn't dominated by the government or corporations. Don't see how it's possible, though.
Then you have anarchy and law of the gun. No thanks...
Our company set up our mail system to insert this line into ANY incoming external email. Has helped us a LOT with reducing the impact of phishing emails...along with filtering known phishing domains......
>>Attention: This email was sent from someone outside of [your company name here]. Always use caution when opening attachments or clicking links from unknown senders or when receiving unexpected emails.
Maybe this would be a good time to rearm Japan. I suspect that would give China something to think about.
From recent articles I have read, Japan is pretty heavily armed already. But until recently, they could only use those weapons for self-defense.
According to this article, the new Japanese Prime Minister and his allies in goverment want to change their constitution to give them more power to use that military might. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...