Yes, but CableCard comes with monthly rental fees as well that are in no way reflecting the manufacturing and maintenance cost. I looked into getting a CableCard and suitable tuner card for my PC....the tuner card is ridiculously expensive but at least a one time expense. The CableCard cost as much in rental fees as an HD set top box. After calculating how much extra money that will cost me over a year I lost all interest, Plan B is to keep using torrents for the TV shows I want to watch and did not record because the rental fees for DVRs are equally unethically high. The industry supposedly only makes 20$ billion on this? I bet it is more and it is fees charged for a service that costs the cable companies absolutely nothing to provide.
What the heck do we need cheaper space travel? I want to cheaper transatlantic flights so that I do not have to get a second mortgage on the house just to visit my family in Europe. Fix that, engineers!
Maybe, but the cost will be much higher than using the pipeline and thus make extracting oil from tar sands a guaranteed loss. I think it was the right decision. The pipeline would have sent dirty Canadian oil across the US to Texan refineries to be sold as gasoline to other countries. Canadian companies would rake in the dough while the US takes all the environmental risk. Yes, there would have been a few hundred construction jobs and maybe some US steel used, but nothing long lasting.
Then again, the Obama administration should have also blocked the southern part of the pipeline, but that was moronically fast tracked. Oil is so 20th century, we have much better energy sources now.
Yes, the lid is locked, but what stops anyone from following these bots with a van, open the side door, break the antenna off, and then grab that whole thing for disassembly at home? Or what if there are distortions (accidentally or intentionally) in the radio transmission that send that robot into a ditch for easy pickup?
What engineers better spend their time on is redesigning living quarters to be walkable with plenty of services offered. That way we do not need dumb ideas like grocery delivery robots and no longer have to worry about widespread obesity.
Once this is indeed put in place have a robot access a large set of sites randomly and send emails on frequent intervals to itself or a set of known bad addresses (or even known good ones that have the inbox thrown away daily). This will effectively grow the logs and history to so ridiculous proportions that analyzing anything will be pointless and storing all that data will become a major expense for ISPs. Once there is compelling evidence that this is bad for business and ISPs unfortunately have to cut back on contributions to political campaigns because of that the law will be scrapped in no time.
You want data? OK, here, I give you tons of it! Data is not the same as information, ya know?
This discussion shows nicely why Linux based OS are still only niche solutions for the common user. Can't even agree on what the right command is to destroy an install.....
Agree, I've come across plenty of beautifully written code that in the end worked well, but totally missed the mark on what the user needed. Also came across buggy and cumbersome code that was of value to the user because despite all the shortcomings it did generate value.
As far as point #3 goes, lack of quality assurance is often due to QA being a 2nd class citizen on a dev team....if there is QA to begin with. Lack of QA in my view is for a good part caused by sloppy code. Quality is the responsibility of everyone on the team, not just the few QA analysts that get 2 hours to test before stuff ships.
One of them is the Import/Export Bank that the Republicans in charge closed down...too much government supposedly, although it is one of the few organizations that generated revenue of the federal government and allowed US companies to be globally competitive.
You need to look at the failure much earlier in the chain. Ever looked at the procurement rules that legislatures put on the books? THAT is sheer insanity because lawmakers are often uneducated in these matters. You'd be surprised how many still think the Internet is just a series of pipes and that a health insurance exchange app cannot be that difficult to build because even their eight year old nephew can do computers.
The OP meant that those in the govt agencies who make the decisions think that way. There is no mechanism to fire anyone in an administration for mismanagement unless it is ridiculously obvious to be a criminal act...and even then many are shielded by any responsibilities due to politics.
Makes me wonder then why every developer I met so far (about 100) is fatally allergic to bug fixing. They rather fake their own death than fix bugs that they put into the code. Commonly, they just state "This is not a bug!" or "This was never requested!" effectively dismissing QA having any clue or say in the matter. QA is not the bad guys, QA is a mirror that developers can stand to look into....entirely self-inflicted!
Yes, please, write bad code if that helps you learn, but then, please, fix it once you know better and don't give me all that BS. And stop discussing and triaging bug reports, go and fix the issues. Takes typically way less time than the discussion aimed at convincing everyone not to do anything.
In theory, Agile does produce better software. In reality, all that management takes away from the one day long Agile Coach session is "If we tell DevQA to be Agile we can deliver software faster!" So release dates are set even more arbitrarily ignoring any amount of work that needs to happen no matter which approach one takes, which means nothing more than increasing workload and stress, forcing to cut corners, encouraging the business to not make any decisions or commit to anything (because we can iterate over it and do it next time).
There are surely plenty of Agile implementations that worked out fine, but most that I came across deliver the same or worse results than before while increasing the amount of rework drastically, and especially with scrum introduce excessive overhead with meetings that require so many resources that teams have to hire scrum masters to manage all that overhead.All the while management stays stuck in old patterns, scheduling decisions to happen during the monthly managers meeting (very agile!). At the same time, business analysts are no longer allowed to write down any requirements because Agile supposedly forbids any kind of documentation. Developers just start coding the way they like with the goal to get something to demo as quickly as possible. That facade impresses the product owner and inclusion in the release coming up a week later is demanded. Lastly, when things fail product owner, managers, developers, support, and C-levels turn around to QA and ask "Why didn't you test this right?"
Agile is the death of quality!
The acronym BASIC was chosen for a reason, it is very basic and for the most part fairly simple to master while getting results quickly. That is why I had no real problems to pick up VB6 way back, but gave up on the various C dialects, anything.NET, and above all Java, which combines the nastinesses and complications from all programming languages into one nice packet.
BASIC was the right middle ground between easy to learn but quickly becoming useless (such as Logo or more recently Scratch) and very difficult to master but quite powerful (such as C, Java). Maybe Python fits in the middle and definitely PHP except that the hard core dev gurus point to the door when you mention you like PHP.
That is what happens when training budgets are cut and work loads are so high that there is no time for training. Old talent cannot know the new stuff when they get no opportunity to stay on top of technical developments. And the young uns are told that mainframe, tape, and SQL are dead, so they don't bother learning any of that.
Sounds more as if this is yet another judge who is clueless and still passes a verdict. OK, might be that the lawyers didn't educate the judge sufficiently.
The biggest impact on carbon emission reduction is in reducing energy consumption in select industries, but especially in housing and transport. All that comes at a cost and in some cases the investments are so large that only a public entity such as state or federal can stem the projects.
Housing energy use can be drastically reduced by investing in better insulation, installing solar panels for either electricity or water heating (or both), better windows and doors, and better heating systems. The 50 gallon hot water tank is out, continuous stream heaters are in. Any new furnace has to come with solar collectors, same for any new roof. All new construction has to have fully insulated basements. All houses need to be retrofitted with proper insulation and new windows and doors. While the home owners will eventually get the benefits, the upfront cost is so high that it is financially better to spend more on energy each year than to drown in debt that might amount to as much as the purchasing price of the house.
There are other measures that architects can take. Open concept and high ceilings is much more expensive to heat and cool. Also, use exclusively hot water or steam radiators with thermovalves on each radiator. That is the easiest way to zone each room rather than just sections of a house. Forced air is way more difficult to control, electric heat should be made illegal by code.
As for transport, invest in public transit, rebuild abandoned rail lines in densely populated areas, move more freight onto rail, make it mandatory to have sidewalks on all streets except highways (and even there adding bike/walk ways separate from the road might be a good idea). And also invest heavily in high speed Internet connections that are affordable (means among other things allow for municipal fiber!) so that remote work is more common place as that effectively reduces commutes. Also do schooling remotely at least part time to cut down on yellow transportation. Further, no longer register cars that have engines with more than 1.2 liters displacement and more than 75 kW engine power. That means good bye to the gas guzzling Jeeps and big fat SUVs and the speedy sports cars.
Decentralize in industry. Example: Almost 90% of all yoghurt sold in the US comes from upstate NY. While that is great for NY it also means that refrigerated trucks need to move tons of yoghurt across the entire nation on a daily basis. Wouldn't it be better to farm cows in many places and make yoghurt in many places and thus effectively cut down on transportation? Or in regards to trash, do not haul it for miles, but run local/regional trash to power plants rather than dump garbage into landfills. Yes, burning stuff isn't great, but a lot of energy was already injected in what ends up as trash and recouping that will be much better than piling it up somewhere.
All these things come with significant up front cost and realize not only financial savings but especially emission savings long term. That means it needs more investments from governments and more subsidies that go far beyond a one time tax reduction. Another way that would be effective, but harsh and hurtful is to drastically increase taxes on energy and transportation.
In reality, none of this will happen because there will be corporations that will lose money or even become obsolete and what is bad for some business is bad for politicians. The number of gutsy decision makers in parliaments who think of the greater good than their own career is far to small.
Less guns will mean less shootings, regardless if the guns are made in a factory or one's basement. To reach that we need to eliminate a good amount of stupidity from those folks who think that owning a gun makes them safer. All evidence shows that it is exactly the opposite. Owning a gun means you are more likely to get shot.
I can see the need for a rifle in wild Alaska (why the heck even go there), but what is the need for a firearm in suburbia or inner cities?
Was wondering the same thing. Why the heck does anyone need an electric kettle to begin with? Get one out of steel and put it on the stove. And why the frack have it be connected to a network? How long does it take for water to boil in a pot at full heat? A few minutes? Seriously, that is too long for some so that they need a remote starter for their kettle?
Anyone who bought one and now has the WiFi password cracked does not deserve any better.
Can it be that we reached the point in time where the smartphone may replace the drive to the office? It makes me wonder what the heck is wrong with me. I rather buy a new car than ever spend money on a smartphone, although the phone itself would be the least of my worries because it is the smallest expense. The freakishly expensive and grossly overpriced data plans are the real killer here. When I hear what others pay per month on their mobile plans it is more than I'd pay on a car loan payment. And even that is expensive because cars are more and more unaffordable. Even the cheap foreign cars now cost above 15k, many not so top of the line vehicles cost as much as my house.
As far as the survey goes, the numbers are skewed. The US has except for a few regions basically no public transit. The US has except for metro regions rather shoddy taxi service. The majority of biking in the US is done for recreational purposes, mainly on designated walk/bike only paths (often abandoned rail lines which should be put back into service IMHO).
Contrary to that, Germany has extensive public transit, regulated and reliable taxi service, and streets with sidewalks for walk/bike use except for restricted access roads (aka highways). I know many people in Germany who do quite well without a car, most of them do not even have a driver's license. Mushing these two groups together really waters down what the survey could have told us. The publishers should take a look at the numbers again and separate them out by country and regions within the country, probably add more responses to get a representative number. Even within the US there is a big difference, I can see doing quite well in Manhattan, NY without a car, in Piercefield, NY not so much.
There are folks who forget things. I can watch a movie after a few years and enjoy it again. Same with books, plenty of them I read two or three times. In a few cases I read books at least twice because the language in them is for me as ESL speaker difficult to understand, even after 20 years.
Netflix....they got really expensive out of a sudden and push people to streaming only service where the selection is dismal. As for foreign films, their selection was always dismal. And for the longest time I had TWC so connection quality was dismal, although that isn't Netflix's fault.
Phono cabinet with (from top to bottom)
- Dual record player with an AC to DC and DC to AC converter so that I get 220V/50Hz
- Aiwa tuner with time clock
- Kenwood amplifier
- Monarch equalizer
- Grundig CD player
- Technics tape deck
- Aiwa dual capstan tape deck
Next to that a really old midi tower PC running Windows with VLC player and hooked up to a Samsung 42" (ok, that is not that old school).
Klipsch satellite speakers and subwoofer
US Robotics analog audio remote transmitter and receiver so that I can send and receive audio signals between the living room and the office, rebroadcasts on FM
Most of the gear is over 20 years old, but works the same as on day 1. My wife eyes that spot for another bookshelf and eventually the plan is to record all records and tapes and CDs to MP3 and use a Pi 2 (or whatever they will have by then) strapped to the back of the TV to replace it all....actually, more move the equipment to a different spot.
Are the courses different for women? Do they learn how to code differently? I fail to understand why women need a special school for that. The problems lie entirely in a different spot. Women are discounted in a male or better to say macho dominated industry. It would be more fruitful to create a school that teaches management professionals how to diversify the workforce and how to accept people for their skill rather than base acceptance on gender. In the end men and women need to learn how to code in probably the same way and acquire the same skills.
Both might be true. Where I work we have very hard times to fill positions, but we do specialized software that requires expert knowledge of GIS systems and decent.NET development or sys admin skills. The majority of universities in the region teaches Java and GIS experts are quite rare.
Then again, for positions like mine in QA I used to get cold calls from companies and offers during good times. Now I might get an offer for 3 month contract work at the other end of the country, no benefits, no expenses paid, and of course it is not allowed to be done remotely. Permanent employment options are non-existent, but that is also due to a shift in the software industry in the past 5 to 10 years: the focus is more about cranking out releases and new features than making sure there is quality and security. Look at all the rankings and surveys of high demand IT jobs, QA is never listed nor is technical writing. I worked as a tech writer for a while and permanent employment is rare, that is typically a field where a lot is done as contract work and results show.
There are definitely hot spots for jobs and those are the same places where companies complain they cannot find talent. Why the heck they keep insisting on having their offices all in the same place drawing from a finite pool of talent available is unclear to me. The US is huge, there are so many great places to open companies.
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Yes, but CableCard comes with monthly rental fees as well that are in no way reflecting the manufacturing and maintenance cost. I looked into getting a CableCard and suitable tuner card for my PC....the tuner card is ridiculously expensive but at least a one time expense. The CableCard cost as much in rental fees as an HD set top box. After calculating how much extra money that will cost me over a year I lost all interest, Plan B is to keep using torrents for the TV shows I want to watch and did not record because the rental fees for DVRs are equally unethically high. The industry supposedly only makes 20$ billion on this? I bet it is more and it is fees charged for a service that costs the cable companies absolutely nothing to provide.
A big help would be allowing subscribers to buy their own equipment rather than rent it. A set top box is about 40$, a remote for it runs 15$.
What the heck do we need cheaper space travel? I want to cheaper transatlantic flights so that I do not have to get a second mortgage on the house just to visit my family in Europe. Fix that, engineers!
Maybe, but the cost will be much higher than using the pipeline and thus make extracting oil from tar sands a guaranteed loss. I think it was the right decision. The pipeline would have sent dirty Canadian oil across the US to Texan refineries to be sold as gasoline to other countries. Canadian companies would rake in the dough while the US takes all the environmental risk. Yes, there would have been a few hundred construction jobs and maybe some US steel used, but nothing long lasting. Then again, the Obama administration should have also blocked the southern part of the pipeline, but that was moronically fast tracked. Oil is so 20th century, we have much better energy sources now.
Yes, the lid is locked, but what stops anyone from following these bots with a van, open the side door, break the antenna off, and then grab that whole thing for disassembly at home? Or what if there are distortions (accidentally or intentionally) in the radio transmission that send that robot into a ditch for easy pickup? What engineers better spend their time on is redesigning living quarters to be walkable with plenty of services offered. That way we do not need dumb ideas like grocery delivery robots and no longer have to worry about widespread obesity.
Once this is indeed put in place have a robot access a large set of sites randomly and send emails on frequent intervals to itself or a set of known bad addresses (or even known good ones that have the inbox thrown away daily). This will effectively grow the logs and history to so ridiculous proportions that analyzing anything will be pointless and storing all that data will become a major expense for ISPs. Once there is compelling evidence that this is bad for business and ISPs unfortunately have to cut back on contributions to political campaigns because of that the law will be scrapped in no time. You want data? OK, here, I give you tons of it! Data is not the same as information, ya know?
This discussion shows nicely why Linux based OS are still only niche solutions for the common user. Can't even agree on what the right command is to destroy an install.....
Agree, I've come across plenty of beautifully written code that in the end worked well, but totally missed the mark on what the user needed. Also came across buggy and cumbersome code that was of value to the user because despite all the shortcomings it did generate value. As far as point #3 goes, lack of quality assurance is often due to QA being a 2nd class citizen on a dev team....if there is QA to begin with. Lack of QA in my view is for a good part caused by sloppy code. Quality is the responsibility of everyone on the team, not just the few QA analysts that get 2 hours to test before stuff ships.
One of them is the Import/Export Bank that the Republicans in charge closed down...too much government supposedly, although it is one of the few organizations that generated revenue of the federal government and allowed US companies to be globally competitive.
You need to look at the failure much earlier in the chain. Ever looked at the procurement rules that legislatures put on the books? THAT is sheer insanity because lawmakers are often uneducated in these matters. You'd be surprised how many still think the Internet is just a series of pipes and that a health insurance exchange app cannot be that difficult to build because even their eight year old nephew can do computers.
The OP meant that those in the govt agencies who make the decisions think that way. There is no mechanism to fire anyone in an administration for mismanagement unless it is ridiculously obvious to be a criminal act...and even then many are shielded by any responsibilities due to politics.
Makes me wonder then why every developer I met so far (about 100) is fatally allergic to bug fixing. They rather fake their own death than fix bugs that they put into the code. Commonly, they just state "This is not a bug!" or "This was never requested!" effectively dismissing QA having any clue or say in the matter. QA is not the bad guys, QA is a mirror that developers can stand to look into....entirely self-inflicted! Yes, please, write bad code if that helps you learn, but then, please, fix it once you know better and don't give me all that BS. And stop discussing and triaging bug reports, go and fix the issues. Takes typically way less time than the discussion aimed at convincing everyone not to do anything.
In theory, Agile does produce better software. In reality, all that management takes away from the one day long Agile Coach session is "If we tell DevQA to be Agile we can deliver software faster!" So release dates are set even more arbitrarily ignoring any amount of work that needs to happen no matter which approach one takes, which means nothing more than increasing workload and stress, forcing to cut corners, encouraging the business to not make any decisions or commit to anything (because we can iterate over it and do it next time). There are surely plenty of Agile implementations that worked out fine, but most that I came across deliver the same or worse results than before while increasing the amount of rework drastically, and especially with scrum introduce excessive overhead with meetings that require so many resources that teams have to hire scrum masters to manage all that overhead.All the while management stays stuck in old patterns, scheduling decisions to happen during the monthly managers meeting (very agile!). At the same time, business analysts are no longer allowed to write down any requirements because Agile supposedly forbids any kind of documentation. Developers just start coding the way they like with the goal to get something to demo as quickly as possible. That facade impresses the product owner and inclusion in the release coming up a week later is demanded. Lastly, when things fail product owner, managers, developers, support, and C-levels turn around to QA and ask "Why didn't you test this right?" Agile is the death of quality!
The acronym BASIC was chosen for a reason, it is very basic and for the most part fairly simple to master while getting results quickly. That is why I had no real problems to pick up VB6 way back, but gave up on the various C dialects, anything .NET, and above all Java, which combines the nastinesses and complications from all programming languages into one nice packet.
BASIC was the right middle ground between easy to learn but quickly becoming useless (such as Logo or more recently Scratch) and very difficult to master but quite powerful (such as C, Java). Maybe Python fits in the middle and definitely PHP except that the hard core dev gurus point to the door when you mention you like PHP.
That is what happens when training budgets are cut and work loads are so high that there is no time for training. Old talent cannot know the new stuff when they get no opportunity to stay on top of technical developments. And the young uns are told that mainframe, tape, and SQL are dead, so they don't bother learning any of that.
Sounds more as if this is yet another judge who is clueless and still passes a verdict. OK, might be that the lawyers didn't educate the judge sufficiently.
The biggest impact on carbon emission reduction is in reducing energy consumption in select industries, but especially in housing and transport. All that comes at a cost and in some cases the investments are so large that only a public entity such as state or federal can stem the projects. Housing energy use can be drastically reduced by investing in better insulation, installing solar panels for either electricity or water heating (or both), better windows and doors, and better heating systems. The 50 gallon hot water tank is out, continuous stream heaters are in. Any new furnace has to come with solar collectors, same for any new roof. All new construction has to have fully insulated basements. All houses need to be retrofitted with proper insulation and new windows and doors. While the home owners will eventually get the benefits, the upfront cost is so high that it is financially better to spend more on energy each year than to drown in debt that might amount to as much as the purchasing price of the house. There are other measures that architects can take. Open concept and high ceilings is much more expensive to heat and cool. Also, use exclusively hot water or steam radiators with thermovalves on each radiator. That is the easiest way to zone each room rather than just sections of a house. Forced air is way more difficult to control, electric heat should be made illegal by code. As for transport, invest in public transit, rebuild abandoned rail lines in densely populated areas, move more freight onto rail, make it mandatory to have sidewalks on all streets except highways (and even there adding bike/walk ways separate from the road might be a good idea). And also invest heavily in high speed Internet connections that are affordable (means among other things allow for municipal fiber!) so that remote work is more common place as that effectively reduces commutes. Also do schooling remotely at least part time to cut down on yellow transportation. Further, no longer register cars that have engines with more than 1.2 liters displacement and more than 75 kW engine power. That means good bye to the gas guzzling Jeeps and big fat SUVs and the speedy sports cars. Decentralize in industry. Example: Almost 90% of all yoghurt sold in the US comes from upstate NY. While that is great for NY it also means that refrigerated trucks need to move tons of yoghurt across the entire nation on a daily basis. Wouldn't it be better to farm cows in many places and make yoghurt in many places and thus effectively cut down on transportation? Or in regards to trash, do not haul it for miles, but run local/regional trash to power plants rather than dump garbage into landfills. Yes, burning stuff isn't great, but a lot of energy was already injected in what ends up as trash and recouping that will be much better than piling it up somewhere. All these things come with significant up front cost and realize not only financial savings but especially emission savings long term. That means it needs more investments from governments and more subsidies that go far beyond a one time tax reduction. Another way that would be effective, but harsh and hurtful is to drastically increase taxes on energy and transportation. In reality, none of this will happen because there will be corporations that will lose money or even become obsolete and what is bad for some business is bad for politicians. The number of gutsy decision makers in parliaments who think of the greater good than their own career is far to small.
Less guns will mean less shootings, regardless if the guns are made in a factory or one's basement. To reach that we need to eliminate a good amount of stupidity from those folks who think that owning a gun makes them safer. All evidence shows that it is exactly the opposite. Owning a gun means you are more likely to get shot. I can see the need for a rifle in wild Alaska (why the heck even go there), but what is the need for a firearm in suburbia or inner cities?
Huh? A gas stove is way safer than an electric kettle, which is nothing more than a cheap way to get an apartment fire.
Was wondering the same thing. Why the heck does anyone need an electric kettle to begin with? Get one out of steel and put it on the stove. And why the frack have it be connected to a network? How long does it take for water to boil in a pot at full heat? A few minutes? Seriously, that is too long for some so that they need a remote starter for their kettle? Anyone who bought one and now has the WiFi password cracked does not deserve any better.
Can it be that we reached the point in time where the smartphone may replace the drive to the office? It makes me wonder what the heck is wrong with me. I rather buy a new car than ever spend money on a smartphone, although the phone itself would be the least of my worries because it is the smallest expense. The freakishly expensive and grossly overpriced data plans are the real killer here. When I hear what others pay per month on their mobile plans it is more than I'd pay on a car loan payment. And even that is expensive because cars are more and more unaffordable. Even the cheap foreign cars now cost above 15k, many not so top of the line vehicles cost as much as my house. As far as the survey goes, the numbers are skewed. The US has except for a few regions basically no public transit. The US has except for metro regions rather shoddy taxi service. The majority of biking in the US is done for recreational purposes, mainly on designated walk/bike only paths (often abandoned rail lines which should be put back into service IMHO). Contrary to that, Germany has extensive public transit, regulated and reliable taxi service, and streets with sidewalks for walk/bike use except for restricted access roads (aka highways). I know many people in Germany who do quite well without a car, most of them do not even have a driver's license. Mushing these two groups together really waters down what the survey could have told us. The publishers should take a look at the numbers again and separate them out by country and regions within the country, probably add more responses to get a representative number. Even within the US there is a big difference, I can see doing quite well in Manhattan, NY without a car, in Piercefield, NY not so much.
There are folks who forget things. I can watch a movie after a few years and enjoy it again. Same with books, plenty of them I read two or three times. In a few cases I read books at least twice because the language in them is for me as ESL speaker difficult to understand, even after 20 years. Netflix....they got really expensive out of a sudden and push people to streaming only service where the selection is dismal. As for foreign films, their selection was always dismal. And for the longest time I had TWC so connection quality was dismal, although that isn't Netflix's fault.
Phono cabinet with (from top to bottom) - Dual record player with an AC to DC and DC to AC converter so that I get 220V/50Hz - Aiwa tuner with time clock - Kenwood amplifier - Monarch equalizer - Grundig CD player - Technics tape deck - Aiwa dual capstan tape deck Next to that a really old midi tower PC running Windows with VLC player and hooked up to a Samsung 42" (ok, that is not that old school). Klipsch satellite speakers and subwoofer US Robotics analog audio remote transmitter and receiver so that I can send and receive audio signals between the living room and the office, rebroadcasts on FM Most of the gear is over 20 years old, but works the same as on day 1. My wife eyes that spot for another bookshelf and eventually the plan is to record all records and tapes and CDs to MP3 and use a Pi 2 (or whatever they will have by then) strapped to the back of the TV to replace it all....actually, more move the equipment to a different spot.
Are the courses different for women? Do they learn how to code differently? I fail to understand why women need a special school for that. The problems lie entirely in a different spot. Women are discounted in a male or better to say macho dominated industry. It would be more fruitful to create a school that teaches management professionals how to diversify the workforce and how to accept people for their skill rather than base acceptance on gender. In the end men and women need to learn how to code in probably the same way and acquire the same skills.
Both might be true. Where I work we have very hard times to fill positions, but we do specialized software that requires expert knowledge of GIS systems and decent .NET development or sys admin skills. The majority of universities in the region teaches Java and GIS experts are quite rare.
Then again, for positions like mine in QA I used to get cold calls from companies and offers during good times. Now I might get an offer for 3 month contract work at the other end of the country, no benefits, no expenses paid, and of course it is not allowed to be done remotely. Permanent employment options are non-existent, but that is also due to a shift in the software industry in the past 5 to 10 years: the focus is more about cranking out releases and new features than making sure there is quality and security. Look at all the rankings and surveys of high demand IT jobs, QA is never listed nor is technical writing. I worked as a tech writer for a while and permanent employment is rare, that is typically a field where a lot is done as contract work and results show.
There are definitely hot spots for jobs and those are the same places where companies complain they cannot find talent. Why the heck they keep insisting on having their offices all in the same place drawing from a finite pool of talent available is unclear to me. The US is huge, there are so many great places to open companies.