There is no such thing as loyalty anymore - companies don't see their employees as valued, they have no loyalty towards them, so it should be no surprise that an entire generation's decided that loyalty to your employer is just a sucker's game.
I've worked as a consultant for some large companies, and some smaller dot-com types, and what you say may have been true there to a certain extent. But I've also been working for a small (40-50ish employees) privately-owned company since 1988 (with 5 years away from it from '97-'02), which does have a "loyalty works both ways" policy. The small company I consulted through was similar. If you can find a company like that, hold onto it...
FoxPro, many others. MS's buying of Foxpro especially annoyed me; Foxpro was a good DBMS before MS bought and killed it. It was head and shoulders above Access. MS couldn't compete, so they bought them out and pretty much ruined it.
I remember the atmosphere on the CI$ FoxPro forums back when the MS-Fox deal was announced - real "end of the world" stuff. People were talking about jumping off buildings. I was one who feared the worst, but as it turns out, MS only killed the Mac and Unix versions. They did continue to support and develop the DOS (for a little while) and Windows versions until recently.
Err, hmm, not so recently. Apparently VFP 9 was released at the end of 2004, with a couple of service packs released since then. Time flies. My company uses VFP very heavily, and though I've been doing my work in Python for the last few years, I still do some VFP from time to time. I do wish MS had modernized the language more. A Python-like language with xBase's integrated database handling would be nice. ORMs help but don't quite match the power and ease.
I got my start in Linux in the early 90s using Yggdrasil. I remember getting it on a CD, shrink-wrapped to a manual the size of a phonebook, which was mostly just various HOW-TOs.
When Grace Hopper wrote the first compiler, her dream was an english-like language that computers and people could both understand easily with a minimum of training. She co-wrote COBOL as the second compiler.
Older languages, like the mainframe DBMS NOMAD and the PC DBMS dBase were IMO brilliant. They needed little documentation, and no curly braces or other such nonsense you find in modern languages like C or Java.
I began working with dBase II/III and FoxBase back in 1988 or so, and still do some work with VFP today. The language itself always reminded me of a mix of Cobol, Pascal and Basic - all designed to be relatively English-like and/or easy to use.
These days, I'm a fan of Python, which has the advantage of being easy to use, but with limitless power.
I believe that was the last movie I saw in a regular theater as well. For a couple of years, I continued seeing movies at a small local theater chain which served fairly good food and had very comfortable seats, until they started showing ads before movies, and that was it for me.
I used to smuggle food into the theater all the time - for Fellowship of the Ring, I had something like 6 bottles of water and soda, a couple of boxes of cookies and a bag of chips. It was cold outside, and I was a tall, skinny guy wearing a heavy jacket - that gave me lots of cargo space.
A couple of us also brought a full KFC dinner once. I think that was in spring time with light jackets.
I recall seeing an interview with him (on VH1, I think, possibly a 'Behind the Music' thing) a few years ago where he was very open about the band's motives in the early days. I think he said it was primarily just a business. I also vaguely remember him coming across as kind of a jerk in a Bass Player Magazine interview.
I was never a fan of them back in the Olden Dayes, but I remember other kids in the late 70s talking about the KISS Army fan club and thinking it all seemed a bit silly...
Netflix has solved the problem for me, but there is still the tedium of selecting which DVDs I want, and the hardship of making the trek to the mailbox...
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Nice riposte.
There is no such thing as loyalty anymore - companies don't see their employees as valued, they have no loyalty towards them, so it should be no surprise that an entire generation's decided that loyalty to your employer is just a sucker's game.
I've worked as a consultant for some large companies, and some smaller dot-com types, and what you say may have been true there to a certain extent. But I've also been working for a small (40-50ish employees) privately-owned company since 1988 (with 5 years away from it from '97-'02), which does have a "loyalty works both ways" policy. The small company I consulted through was similar. If you can find a company like that, hold onto it...
"In his browser at Slashdot.org, dead Cthulhu posts, trolling"?
That happens when you're working on the bleeding edge.
FoxPro, many others. MS's buying of Foxpro especially annoyed me; Foxpro was a good DBMS before MS bought and killed it. It was head and shoulders above Access. MS couldn't compete, so they bought them out and pretty much ruined it.
I remember the atmosphere on the CI$ FoxPro forums back when the MS-Fox deal was announced - real "end of the world" stuff. People were talking about jumping off buildings. I was one who feared the worst, but as it turns out, MS only killed the Mac and Unix versions. They did continue to support and develop the DOS (for a little while) and Windows versions until recently.
Err, hmm, not so recently. Apparently VFP 9 was released at the end of 2004, with a couple of service packs released since then. Time flies. My company uses VFP very heavily, and though I've been doing my work in Python for the last few years, I still do some VFP from time to time. I do wish MS had modernized the language more. A Python-like language with xBase's integrated database handling would be nice. ORMs help but don't quite match the power and ease.
That's what the Free Mesons want you to believe.
I got my start in Linux in the early 90s using Yggdrasil. I remember getting it on a CD, shrink-wrapped to a manual the size of a phonebook, which was mostly just various HOW-TOs.
If his account was on kgbvax, then yes :-).
Oops, I meant the "Wheel of Fortune" wheel, not a roulette wheel.
Sort of reminds me of a roulette wheel. Where will it stop? What will the final number really be?
When Grace Hopper wrote the first compiler, her dream was an english-like language that computers and people could both understand easily with a minimum of training. She co-wrote COBOL as the second compiler.
Older languages, like the mainframe DBMS NOMAD and the PC DBMS dBase were IMO brilliant. They needed little documentation, and no curly braces or other such nonsense you find in modern languages like C or Java.
I began working with dBase II/III and FoxBase back in 1988 or so, and still do some work with VFP today. The language itself always reminded me of a mix of Cobol, Pascal and Basic - all designed to be relatively English-like and/or easy to use.
These days, I'm a fan of Python, which has the advantage of being easy to use, but with limitless power.
I believe that was the last movie I saw in a regular theater as well. For a couple of years, I continued seeing movies at a small local theater chain which served fairly good food and had very comfortable seats, until they started showing ads before movies, and that was it for me.
I used to smuggle food into the theater all the time - for Fellowship of the Ring, I had something like 6 bottles of water and soda, a couple of boxes of cookies and a bag of chips. It was cold outside, and I was a tall, skinny guy wearing a heavy jacket - that gave me lots of cargo space.
A couple of us also brought a full KFC dinner once. I think that was in spring time with light jackets.
I didn't realize they were remaking The Abyss. Still not enough to get me to go back to the theater, though.
I wonder how much he was paid for 'Thriller'?
An AC had already made the 'Crazy Train' joke, so I took the leftovers :-).
You're just being paranoid.
I recall seeing an interview with him (on VH1, I think, possibly a 'Behind the Music' thing) a few years ago where he was very open about the band's motives in the early days. I think he said it was primarily just a business. I also vaguely remember him coming across as kind of a jerk in a Bass Player Magazine interview.
I was never a fan of them back in the Olden Dayes, but I remember other kids in the late 70s talking about the KISS Army fan club and thinking it all seemed a bit silly...
Frankincense and myrrh?
Ditto. I remember hearing about this game a while back, but had completely forgotten about it.
"The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."
And I was one of them, until the commercials and the high prices (to a lesser extent) drove me away.
Obviously, power from solar wind is twice as renewable as power from either solar or wind individually.
Netflix has solved the problem for me, but there is still the tedium of selecting which DVDs I want, and the hardship of making the trek to the mailbox...
Agreed. Unfortunately, there are hordes of people that are still clamoring to continue feeding them money.