It goes along with the Trump plan. Within a few months Trump ended any chance of industry or science leadership of the US in all areas except one: weapons. Killing people effectively is the only remaining skill the US has a top position in.
In case you haven't noticed, Trump and his administration are not rational and have severe issues with math. But rest assured, it will be HUGE and you will love it! Especially when NASA straps Trump on a booster on the first trial run.
Talk to them. They should be aware that things have changed and they likely will tell you what they would do if they had to make department decisions. Just because they are older and supposedly stuck in yesteryear does not mean they are dumb and clueless. Training in specific areas is one good option as is finding them other tasks within the company. Maybe they had enough of helpdesk service and rather want to be more involved on the production side of things. Looking for QA? UX design? Report design? Tech writing? Something else? Make it easy for them to find a new purpose within the company.
By all means, don't fire them. They obviously did not get the attention and training years ago when the changes came into play. Should they have been more proactive? Maybe, but it could well be that prior management discouraged such engagement and ran with a "do as I say" culture. In any case, if they are just a few years away from retirement and generally have a good standing within the company let them come in and do whatever they think they can do. The perceived issue will go away in the near future, no reason to sour your relationship with folks long term.
True...which is why bringing manufacturing back to the US on a massive scale is bound to flop. "Shit" will be far more expensive and not competitive. I don't think wages are the core issue here, it is the insane amount of subsidies shipping companies collect. As soon as shipping crates of junk from China to the US costs the manufacturers what it should the entire constellation will change drastically.
It also matters how unemployment is counted. In the US the number is severely skewed in favor of those in office. Those who sign up for such jobs typically have not much else to chose from. More opportunity comes from more education and that is in most places getting prohibitively expensive. As far as the UK goes, once they brexited and the economy tanks worse than during Thatcher's time the number of people who can afford ordering crap on Amazon will go down drastically.
What is then the point of providing a means of public comment when the comments mean nothing? Seeking public comment ought to be part of the decision process because the penpushers at the FCC have shown not just recently, but for a long time that they have no clue what they are controlling or deciding on. In the current case it is blatantly obvious that big corp has massively influenced the decision process and dictated federal regulation that serves only one purpose: give a card blanche to ISPs to charge extra for everything. The proposed changes destroy the Internet. If these changes come into effect we the Internet users need to find reliable partners with deep pockets who fund an entirely independent infrastructure that essentially reinstates the neutrality rules.
Seems to be a common agreement among voters that it is perfectly fine to leave the sick and disabled to fend for themselves. Supposedly it is their fault for not having a rich daddy with a multi-million dollar real estate business or making a racket on Wall Street. There are plenty who fully agree with that approach and they will continue to vote for a party that promotes such ideas....with the expectation, of course, that when needed medical services will be available at little or no cost to them. If there is a charge, then it is clearly Obama's fault....or crooked Hillary...or the liberals...or Muslims...or whatever scapegoat happens to be convenient at the time. There will be no kick in the head. If the lack of net neutrality causes problems the argument will be made that Pai was an Obama appointee.
Common practice, partially working chips are sold with the broken components turned off. The level of brokenness varies, in some cases there may only be negligible defects. That was the case with several AMD processors years ago and it was fairly easy to turn the dormant cores back on. Same with the old pencil trick to run the processors at a higher native clock speed without external overclocking. Nevertheless, they should have named the crippled GPUs differently. Rather naive to think that there will be no confusion when selling two different things by the same name.
A quick online search (apparently very difficult to do for some who cast a verdict quickly) revealed these German EV manufacturers: Twike, IMA, eWolf, Trabant, Karabag, Treffpunkt Zukunft, Ruf, Jetcar, Brabus, VW/Audi/Porsche, Opel, Smart, Mini/BMW, Loremo, Ford Germany, Mercedes, Efa-S, Lorinser, StreetScooter, PG....plus the dozens of other European manufacturers who offer their cars on the German market. The idea that Tesla is the only EV manufacturer in the world is ignorant or naive at best. In fact, many others can fill order while Tesla is inept to glue their cars together even with a factory that was designed to crank out 500,000 cars a year and did show that it easily sustained production of 480,000 annually. Tesla cannot even get a 10th of that out. Tesla is like Apple, they excel in design and PR, but when it comes to nuts and bolts they are a hodgepodge of ineptitude and dead promises. All while asking a sickening high price for their product that really isn't that spectacular in the end.
Contributing to FOSS projects is often futile. I tried and small projects fizzle out quickly while large projects typically suffer from delusional egomaniacs who spend more time on bashing people's comments than engaging volunteers to contribute. I offered services for quality assurance, UI design, and documentation/translation, but although those are sought after I met massive resistance just by asking what the best way to contribute is in these areas. That goes beyond the many bugzilla reports that often gain a lot of 'me too' comments and then get shot down years later without addressing at times rather fundamental issues (biggest problem still is not being able to share a Thunderbid profile across multiple systems).
If FOSS projects want people who are not developers (!!!) to contribute they have to put in some effort and cater to that group. I do agree that some level of technical expertise is needed. I wouldn't offer services to a FOSS project that I couldn't reasonably market for a professional engagement. I do not expect consistent hand holding, but at least manage and organize contributions and be reasonable. Volunteers like myself cannot spend 60 hours a week on your one project, because we already spend 60 hours on the jobs that pay the bills. That said, if anyone is looking for help contact me and let's talk.
Seems like this fella Petreley is the poster child of the FOSS spokesperson. I tried to actively engage in many low and high profile open source projects. The low profile ones fizzled out before I could contribute meaningfully. The high profile projects all suffer from these megallomaniac superego waterheads pulling the strings. They think they are God, the only God. Anyone who disagrees is scum, anyone who claims that Apple or Microsoft might be on to something is digitally shunned, they spend more time on dissing people than on fixing issues reported by many. The worst of them all are the folks from Mozilla. Kudos to them that they are still around despite all the hate and anger they produce. There is also the other kind like the OpenOffice folks who are assuming that anyone new to the team knows everything. It makes joining close to impossible. Add to that the chronic level of reality loss. That Petreley guy writes about Linux superiority in 2006. Sure, Linux is a damn good OS. No surprise it runs the top 500 supercomputers in the world. No wonder that big companies like Apple and Microsoft now warm up to Linux. Nevertheless, there is a reason why I run Linux only on the Raspberry Pis for fun. Linux and the Linux desktop are far from usable in the mainstream. Too much is still reliant on manually editing files and command line interaction. It's 2017 folks, give me a GUI or go home! Although, even with a GUI things are nightmares at times. I tried so hard to make Linux or better to say Samba on Linux be the system running my local file shares, but in that regard it is as ignorant as Windows, as quirky as OS X, and as convoluted as, well, there really isn't anything that is that bad. There is no Linux superiority when usability and ease of access are as dismal today as they were in 2006. A whole decade and nothing much has changed. Why don't all the egocentric Torvalds clones of the FOSS world address that? I guess we are not worthy.
BUT, there is a HUGE exception! The PaleMoon team is a great example how a FOSS project can engage with any type and level of contributors. Even when disagreements come up they are very courteous and lay out their reasoning. I might still disagree, but their arguments are plausible and very informative and educational. Even more importantly, they produce a product that is top shelf! I hope they write a paper on successfully running a FOSS project so that others can follow.
Sad to see such a publication go, but it is interesting that in the FOSS world all comes down to money in the end as well. Also shows that documentation is the first thing to go in the FOSS universe, no different than in the profit oriented closed source world. So where are all these volunteers who make things happen for the better of the universe?
Pass a bill that mandates that all companies and organizations storing personal data have to employ the strictest and most modern security measures. The measures have to be reviewed by an independent third party at least annually. If lack of doing this leads to a data breach the entire operations will be closed down holding management staff personally liable. Yes, I mean have he CIO put his weekend mansion on the market and sell his yacht to cover the damages caused. Things will only change when those in charge have to lose something.
You need to consider the content and the cost of creating it. I'm willing to pay for decent content, but I am hard pressed to find ANY US news outlet that covers local, regional, national, and international stories equally well. Even local papers have maybe three or four stories that are rather superficial, wrapped in 16 pages of baseball stats. Online is not any better. Many of the stories are carbon copies of AP or Reuters and get published hours if not days after European outlets covered them. If you want to get informed about the US read reputable British, German, or French newspapers.
As far as ad revenue goes, I have no problems with ads as long as they are not the main content of a page. Put them on the right side, have them be static text or images, no video, no audio. Put some effort into the ads shown, not this AdChoice crap that shows me stuff that has no relevance to the region I live in. Why advertise for a store chain that has no presence here? Also, show ads and be done with it, means none of this tracking crap. The only alternative I am fine with is a 3 second full page ad before I get the content. In any case, optimize page loads. I recently complained to a local online newspaper that they removed the comment section below articles. They claimed it was for page load optimization. The comment section took milliseconds to load while all the ad crap added seconds causing constant content shifts while the ad images popped up all over the page. Do advertising the right way and people are less keen on blocking it.
...but cannot do their business on their own in a designated spot (cats can do that) and are inept to spend a few days alone (no problem with cats). I have come across many dumb dogs that bark constantly for no reason, but at least as many clever cats. More cells does not make one smarter.
The current government is fine with the Internet consisting only of breitbart.com, foxnews.com and Trump's Twitter account. Rest assured that there will be a lot of variety. Just look how many different letters the URLs use!
Is that Pai a carbon copy of Trump? You disagree with him and he throws a tantrum, rolls on the floor, starts screaming, and declares that everyone else is just a dirty liberal spewing fake news? Man...maybe I should be more like an obnoxious ass, seems to be the key to a big career.
Makes one ask the question again which idiots voted for the idiot who put that FCC idiot in charge? Thanks for destroying this country! Are you happy now? Did you get your mining jobs back already?
...why are they still sold? I know it is about money and tax revenue, but the overall cost likely does not outweigh these 'benefits'. Make cigs illegal and stop selling them or at least quadrupel the tax on them and add a 5$ deposit for each cigarette butt, package, and lighter. That way the world will be much cleaner
That is similar to municipal fiber which will come with a significant amount of other advantages. But that, too, is often drowned in the quagmire of big ISPs paying off politicians. That also impacts current providers in some markets. For example, the capitol of NY is free of fiber because local and state politicians have personal and financial ties to Comcast. That is apparently enough to keep Verizon out and provide Comcast with a local monopoly. Comcast's copper just can't provide what fiber to the home can do. Aside from regulating equal access to poles there should be no other restrictions, yet many places engage in communist style single provider behavior. While that may make sense for some areas (fire, police, ambulance) fairly easily installed communications cabling is not one of them.
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It goes along with the Trump plan. Within a few months Trump ended any chance of industry or science leadership of the US in all areas except one: weapons. Killing people effectively is the only remaining skill the US has a top position in.
In case you haven't noticed, Trump and his administration are not rational and have severe issues with math. But rest assured, it will be HUGE and you will love it! Especially when NASA straps Trump on a booster on the first trial run.
Talk to them. They should be aware that things have changed and they likely will tell you what they would do if they had to make department decisions. Just because they are older and supposedly stuck in yesteryear does not mean they are dumb and clueless. Training in specific areas is one good option as is finding them other tasks within the company. Maybe they had enough of helpdesk service and rather want to be more involved on the production side of things. Looking for QA? UX design? Report design? Tech writing? Something else? Make it easy for them to find a new purpose within the company.
By all means, don't fire them. They obviously did not get the attention and training years ago when the changes came into play. Should they have been more proactive? Maybe, but it could well be that prior management discouraged such engagement and ran with a "do as I say" culture. In any case, if they are just a few years away from retirement and generally have a good standing within the company let them come in and do whatever they think they can do. The perceived issue will go away in the near future, no reason to sour your relationship with folks long term.
True...which is why bringing manufacturing back to the US on a massive scale is bound to flop. "Shit" will be far more expensive and not competitive. I don't think wages are the core issue here, it is the insane amount of subsidies shipping companies collect. As soon as shipping crates of junk from China to the US costs the manufacturers what it should the entire constellation will change drastically.
It also matters how unemployment is counted. In the US the number is severely skewed in favor of those in office. Those who sign up for such jobs typically have not much else to chose from. More opportunity comes from more education and that is in most places getting prohibitively expensive. As far as the UK goes, once they brexited and the economy tanks worse than during Thatcher's time the number of people who can afford ordering crap on Amazon will go down drastically.
What is then the point of providing a means of public comment when the comments mean nothing? Seeking public comment ought to be part of the decision process because the penpushers at the FCC have shown not just recently, but for a long time that they have no clue what they are controlling or deciding on. In the current case it is blatantly obvious that big corp has massively influenced the decision process and dictated federal regulation that serves only one purpose: give a card blanche to ISPs to charge extra for everything. The proposed changes destroy the Internet. If these changes come into effect we the Internet users need to find reliable partners with deep pockets who fund an entirely independent infrastructure that essentially reinstates the neutrality rules.
At least a more creative excuse than "Chinese hoax" or "fake news".
Trump declared climate change as a Chinese hoax - problem solved! Rather odd given that most of his golf courses will be under water soon.
Seems to be a common agreement among voters that it is perfectly fine to leave the sick and disabled to fend for themselves. Supposedly it is their fault for not having a rich daddy with a multi-million dollar real estate business or making a racket on Wall Street. There are plenty who fully agree with that approach and they will continue to vote for a party that promotes such ideas....with the expectation, of course, that when needed medical services will be available at little or no cost to them. If there is a charge, then it is clearly Obama's fault....or crooked Hillary...or the liberals...or Muslims...or whatever scapegoat happens to be convenient at the time. There will be no kick in the head. If the lack of net neutrality causes problems the argument will be made that Pai was an Obama appointee.
Common practice, partially working chips are sold with the broken components turned off. The level of brokenness varies, in some cases there may only be negligible defects. That was the case with several AMD processors years ago and it was fairly easy to turn the dormant cores back on. Same with the old pencil trick to run the processors at a higher native clock speed without external overclocking. Nevertheless, they should have named the crippled GPUs differently. Rather naive to think that there will be no confusion when selling two different things by the same name.
A quick online search (apparently very difficult to do for some who cast a verdict quickly) revealed these German EV manufacturers: Twike, IMA, eWolf, Trabant, Karabag, Treffpunkt Zukunft, Ruf, Jetcar, Brabus, VW/Audi/Porsche, Opel, Smart, Mini/BMW, Loremo, Ford Germany, Mercedes, Efa-S, Lorinser, StreetScooter, PG....plus the dozens of other European manufacturers who offer their cars on the German market. The idea that Tesla is the only EV manufacturer in the world is ignorant or naive at best. In fact, many others can fill order while Tesla is inept to glue their cars together even with a factory that was designed to crank out 500,000 cars a year and did show that it easily sustained production of 480,000 annually. Tesla cannot even get a 10th of that out. Tesla is like Apple, they excel in design and PR, but when it comes to nuts and bolts they are a hodgepodge of ineptitude and dead promises. All while asking a sickening high price for their product that really isn't that spectacular in the end.
If you diss the Germans than at least spell the words right.
Contributing to FOSS projects is often futile. I tried and small projects fizzle out quickly while large projects typically suffer from delusional egomaniacs who spend more time on bashing people's comments than engaging volunteers to contribute. I offered services for quality assurance, UI design, and documentation/translation, but although those are sought after I met massive resistance just by asking what the best way to contribute is in these areas. That goes beyond the many bugzilla reports that often gain a lot of 'me too' comments and then get shot down years later without addressing at times rather fundamental issues (biggest problem still is not being able to share a Thunderbid profile across multiple systems).
If FOSS projects want people who are not developers (!!!) to contribute they have to put in some effort and cater to that group. I do agree that some level of technical expertise is needed. I wouldn't offer services to a FOSS project that I couldn't reasonably market for a professional engagement. I do not expect consistent hand holding, but at least manage and organize contributions and be reasonable. Volunteers like myself cannot spend 60 hours a week on your one project, because we already spend 60 hours on the jobs that pay the bills. That said, if anyone is looking for help contact me and let's talk.
Seems like this fella Petreley is the poster child of the FOSS spokesperson. I tried to actively engage in many low and high profile open source projects. The low profile ones fizzled out before I could contribute meaningfully. The high profile projects all suffer from these megallomaniac superego waterheads pulling the strings. They think they are God, the only God. Anyone who disagrees is scum, anyone who claims that Apple or Microsoft might be on to something is digitally shunned, they spend more time on dissing people than on fixing issues reported by many. The worst of them all are the folks from Mozilla. Kudos to them that they are still around despite all the hate and anger they produce. There is also the other kind like the OpenOffice folks who are assuming that anyone new to the team knows everything. It makes joining close to impossible. Add to that the chronic level of reality loss. That Petreley guy writes about Linux superiority in 2006. Sure, Linux is a damn good OS. No surprise it runs the top 500 supercomputers in the world. No wonder that big companies like Apple and Microsoft now warm up to Linux. Nevertheless, there is a reason why I run Linux only on the Raspberry Pis for fun. Linux and the Linux desktop are far from usable in the mainstream. Too much is still reliant on manually editing files and command line interaction. It's 2017 folks, give me a GUI or go home! Although, even with a GUI things are nightmares at times. I tried so hard to make Linux or better to say Samba on Linux be the system running my local file shares, but in that regard it is as ignorant as Windows, as quirky as OS X, and as convoluted as, well, there really isn't anything that is that bad. There is no Linux superiority when usability and ease of access are as dismal today as they were in 2006. A whole decade and nothing much has changed. Why don't all the egocentric Torvalds clones of the FOSS world address that? I guess we are not worthy.
BUT, there is a HUGE exception! The PaleMoon team is a great example how a FOSS project can engage with any type and level of contributors. Even when disagreements come up they are very courteous and lay out their reasoning. I might still disagree, but their arguments are plausible and very informative and educational. Even more importantly, they produce a product that is top shelf! I hope they write a paper on successfully running a FOSS project so that others can follow.
Sad to see such a publication go, but it is interesting that in the FOSS world all comes down to money in the end as well. Also shows that documentation is the first thing to go in the FOSS universe, no different than in the profit oriented closed source world. So where are all these volunteers who make things happen for the better of the universe?
Pass a bill that mandates that all companies and organizations storing personal data have to employ the strictest and most modern security measures. The measures have to be reviewed by an independent third party at least annually. If lack of doing this leads to a data breach the entire operations will be closed down holding management staff personally liable. Yes, I mean have he CIO put his weekend mansion on the market and sell his yacht to cover the damages caused. Things will only change when those in charge have to lose something.
You need to consider the content and the cost of creating it. I'm willing to pay for decent content, but I am hard pressed to find ANY US news outlet that covers local, regional, national, and international stories equally well. Even local papers have maybe three or four stories that are rather superficial, wrapped in 16 pages of baseball stats. Online is not any better. Many of the stories are carbon copies of AP or Reuters and get published hours if not days after European outlets covered them. If you want to get informed about the US read reputable British, German, or French newspapers.
As far as ad revenue goes, I have no problems with ads as long as they are not the main content of a page. Put them on the right side, have them be static text or images, no video, no audio. Put some effort into the ads shown, not this AdChoice crap that shows me stuff that has no relevance to the region I live in. Why advertise for a store chain that has no presence here? Also, show ads and be done with it, means none of this tracking crap. The only alternative I am fine with is a 3 second full page ad before I get the content. In any case, optimize page loads. I recently complained to a local online newspaper that they removed the comment section below articles. They claimed it was for page load optimization. The comment section took milliseconds to load while all the ad crap added seconds causing constant content shifts while the ad images popped up all over the page. Do advertising the right way and people are less keen on blocking it.
...but cannot do their business on their own in a designated spot (cats can do that) and are inept to spend a few days alone (no problem with cats). I have come across many dumb dogs that bark constantly for no reason, but at least as many clever cats. More cells does not make one smarter.
You had an answering machine? Growing up we needed to take a walk over to the neighbors to make a phone call...getting one? Forget it!
The current government is fine with the Internet consisting only of breitbart.com, foxnews.com and Trump's Twitter account. Rest assured that there will be a lot of variety. Just look how many different letters the URLs use!
Is that Pai a carbon copy of Trump? You disagree with him and he throws a tantrum, rolls on the floor, starts screaming, and declares that everyone else is just a dirty liberal spewing fake news? Man...maybe I should be more like an obnoxious ass, seems to be the key to a big career.
...they should have gotten a more expensive phone and not this cheap garbage from Apple! Besides that, they are typing it wrong!
Makes one ask the question again which idiots voted for the idiot who put that FCC idiot in charge? Thanks for destroying this country! Are you happy now? Did you get your mining jobs back already?
...why are they still sold? I know it is about money and tax revenue, but the overall cost likely does not outweigh these 'benefits'. Make cigs illegal and stop selling them or at least quadrupel the tax on them and add a 5$ deposit for each cigarette butt, package, and lighter. That way the world will be much cleaner
That is similar to municipal fiber which will come with a significant amount of other advantages. But that, too, is often drowned in the quagmire of big ISPs paying off politicians. That also impacts current providers in some markets. For example, the capitol of NY is free of fiber because local and state politicians have personal and financial ties to Comcast. That is apparently enough to keep Verizon out and provide Comcast with a local monopoly. Comcast's copper just can't provide what fiber to the home can do. Aside from regulating equal access to poles there should be no other restrictions, yet many places engage in communist style single provider behavior. While that may make sense for some areas (fire, police, ambulance) fairly easily installed communications cabling is not one of them.