Occurrences of cancer are not down. It is the mortality rates that have reduced. Of course those with more wealth can afford to pay for treatment, can afford the "time off" to get those treatments and can afford the travel that is often required to get said treatment.
Also any exploits of the suffix information would need to either be done very quickly or in such a way that the owner did not know it was missing or compromised. Because the first thing you would do upon realizing that your suffix list has been stolen is go and change your passwords to use a new set of suffix's.
Yup. Cray's advantage has always been the engineering behind the interconnects and the highly optimized compilers. The people behind those are still around.
The situation presented by the OP is not really age related. It has a lot more to do with attitude and personality. I work in IT and turned 50 a couple weeks ago. I spend a significant amount of my time trying to keep up with technology advancements. Most of the people I work with and know that work with technology do not try to keep up with things unless they must to do their job. It really comes down to a matter of interest. Some people have an innate interest in technology and learning as much as they can about it. Others do not. What you do for a living really has little to do with it.
I believe under current law the border patrol has authority anywhere within 100 miles of the border. This means something like 75%+ of the US population lives within the border patrols area of operation and they can stop you at any time to do a "border search". The thing about this is that the rules and laws that control what the border patrol can do are way different than what most other law enforcement organizations work under. A fair amount of due process stuff just goes right out the window.
It depends on what your goal is. Do you want to stop the change requests or reduce them?
If you just want to reduce them put in a change control process and make sure everyone, including IT, follows it, no exceptions other than a true production stop situation. Half the request will go away simply because someone has to actually fill out a form and commit stuff to writing.
If you want to stop all but the most essential stuff do charge backs for everything you do. The moment the actual cost of making changes moves out of IT, requests will drop off drastically. People will ask for all kinds of stuff as long as it doesn't cost them anything. The moment they have to pay for it they pay a lot more attention to things and only pay for what they really need..
One big problem I have seen is that developers are never given any sort of training related to documenting. That and standards are seldom in place. So you can tell developers to document stuff, but if they are never shown what to do or how to do it, it just isn't going to get done in a useful way.
For example the skill set needed to administer an Oracle database hasn't really changed in a long time. Have new tools come along that have better UI? Sure, but the process to create a database, do backups, make a clone, optimize a query, etc. haven't changed in ages.
As for people that right code, the real skill set of a good programmer never goes stale. Being familiar with one specific language or framework is really a very small part of a good programmers skill set. Any good programmer can pick up a different language of framework fairly quickly. Understanding various design patterns, development techniques, good comunications skills, etc. never go stale and are always relevant.
It seems Mr. Bloom is referring to experience with specific versions of software or hardware as the skill set. Not the actual skills it takes to effectively use that software or hardware.
It will not work with VS Express, but it will apparently work with VS Shell, which is free. VS Shell is just the IDE without any of the language compilers included.
The last numbers I saw in 2010 stated that the license cost for Blu-Ray was US$4.50 per player. That is over and beyond any hardware costs. So when you are talking about many millions of units shipped that becomes real money saved.
It's not the price relative to other choices that make high speed rail usage in China relatively low. It is the fact that the average monthly wages in China are something like 2000-3000 Yuan. Sure there are plenty of people in a company the size of China that make more then that, but the majority just plain can't afford to travel at all.
Where I have worked, about 1500-2000 employee manufacturing companies, the IT organization has fallen under two different places in the org chart. The VP-IT either reported directly to the President/CEO or to the VP-Finance & Accounting, who in turn reported to the President/CEO.
Nothing new for Games Workshop. Their lawyers love suing their best customers and have been doing it for decades now. My guess is this is where the RIAA and MPAA got the idea from.
There were times when I would actually code for 35-45 hours a week. Assuming "code" includes the wrote, run, crash, debug, rinse and repeat cycle.
These days I am lucky if I actually code more then 5 hours a week on average. I spend most of my times doing administrative tasks, being interrupted by coworkers and attending ineffective meetings.
In Exchange 2003 prior to SP2, the limit for the mailbox store was 16 GB. In SP2 they upped that limit to 75 GB
16GB per mailbox should be enough for most users for a few years to come, what is all the fuss about? No 16GB to for the mailbox store, which houses ALL of the mail boxes, IIRC. Thus, the reason for having 10M-20M limits on peoples inbox.
I build Windows installations about 6-8 times per year and deploy third party applications 'silently' 1-2 times per year and have to agree that most of the tools are complete garbage. This is mostly due to Microsofts completely f'd up, unfriendly and poorly documented Windows Installer. All the third party installers try to do tricks to work around the gaps in the Windows Installer, which ends up creating still more problems.
The bigger question here is what the hell were they doing changing installation building tools only a couple of weeks before the biggest update they have done in years?!
And yes I am an Eve player and yes I did end up with my boot.ini file deleted. Fortunately I hadn't yet rebooted when word of the problem got out and I was able to fix things.
While this is sort of true in that a not for profit has to actually make an effort to put there resources towards the goal stated in their charter. A for profit corporation can blow all there money on Pocky and Jolt I suppose.
It's not so much limits on how you raise money or what you can spend it on. It's more a case of accountability and visibility. In the case of most not for profit corporations your books are more open to the public, although it make take some hoop jumping to get a look at them. For profit corporations can keep things much more hidden from view.
Yes a high-sec POS is useful, but only as a place to do blueprint research. For this purpose high-sec is very nice because if the POS is attacked CONCORD will come to your aid even if at war. Combined with the inability to bring a capital ship into high-sec space makes it almost impossible for a high-sec POS to be destroyed. At least until the change the rules.;-)
See there's the problem. No one cares about dividends any more. They only care about the price going up so they can sell it. Most stock isn't held long enough for most people to even see a dividend, if they ever even give one.;-)
I have to agree here. In my 'clubbing' days, you didn't even bother leaving the house until 10-11PM , unless you were doing dinner before hitting the clubs. Even then you never went out before 8-9PM.;)
From my experiences the type 1 person you mention would be called a Team Lead, while type 2 would be called a Project Manager. I completely agree that these are really two different types of people and have yet to come across anyone that can do both jobs well. Particularly at the same time.
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Occurrences of cancer are not down. It is the mortality rates that have reduced. Of course those with more wealth can afford to pay for treatment, can afford the "time off" to get those treatments and can afford the travel that is often required to get said treatment.
Just yesterday we retired our last Intergraph machine manufactured in 1994.
Also any exploits of the suffix information would need to either be done very quickly or in such a way that the owner did not know it was missing or compromised. Because the first thing you would do upon realizing that your suffix list has been stolen is go and change your passwords to use a new set of suffix's.
Yup. Cray's advantage has always been the engineering behind the interconnects and the highly optimized compilers. The people behind those are still around.
The situation presented by the OP is not really age related. It has a lot more to do with attitude and personality. I work in IT and turned 50 a couple weeks ago. I spend a significant amount of my time trying to keep up with technology advancements. Most of the people I work with and know that work with technology do not try to keep up with things unless they must to do their job. It really comes down to a matter of interest. Some people have an innate interest in technology and learning as much as they can about it. Others do not. What you do for a living really has little to do with it.
I believe under current law the border patrol has authority anywhere within 100 miles of the border. This means something like 75%+ of the US population lives within the border patrols area of operation and they can stop you at any time to do a "border search". The thing about this is that the rules and laws that control what the border patrol can do are way different than what most other law enforcement organizations work under. A fair amount of due process stuff just goes right out the window.
It depends on what your goal is. Do you want to stop the change requests or reduce them?
If you just want to reduce them put in a change control process and make sure everyone, including IT, follows it, no exceptions other than a true production stop situation. Half the request will go away simply because someone has to actually fill out a form and commit stuff to writing.
If you want to stop all but the most essential stuff do charge backs for everything you do. The moment the actual cost of making changes moves out of IT, requests will drop off drastically. People will ask for all kinds of stuff as long as it doesn't cost them anything. The moment they have to pay for it they pay a lot more attention to things and only pay for what they really need..
One big problem I have seen is that developers are never given any sort of training related to documenting. That and standards are seldom in place. So you can tell developers to document stuff, but if they are never shown what to do or how to do it, it just isn't going to get done in a useful way.
It really does depend on the specific job.
For example the skill set needed to administer an Oracle database hasn't really changed in a long time. Have new tools come along that have better UI? Sure, but the process to create a database, do backups, make a clone, optimize a query, etc. haven't changed in ages.
As for people that right code, the real skill set of a good programmer never goes stale. Being familiar with one specific language or framework is really a very small part of a good programmers skill set. Any good programmer can pick up a different language of framework fairly quickly. Understanding various design patterns, development techniques, good comunications skills, etc. never go stale and are always relevant.
It seems Mr. Bloom is referring to experience with specific versions of software or hardware as the skill set. Not the actual skills it takes to effectively use that software or hardware.
It will not work with VS Express, but it will apparently work with VS Shell, which is free. VS Shell is just the IDE without any of the language compilers included.
The last numbers I saw in 2010 stated that the license cost for Blu-Ray was US$4.50 per player. That is over and beyond any hardware costs. So when you are talking about many millions of units shipped that becomes real money saved.
It's not the price relative to other choices that make high speed rail usage in China relatively low. It is the fact that the average monthly wages in China are something like 2000-3000 Yuan. Sure there are plenty of people in a company the size of China that make more then that, but the majority just plain can't afford to travel at all.
I paid for and used a copy of Trumpet a lot. Although I probably used it on 3 or 4 different PCs, one at a time, over the course of a couple years.
Where I have worked, about 1500-2000 employee manufacturing companies, the IT organization has fallen under two different places in the org chart. The VP-IT either reported directly to the President/CEO or to the VP-Finance & Accounting, who in turn reported to the President/CEO.
Nothing new for Games Workshop. Their lawyers love suing their best customers and have been doing it for decades now. My guess is this is where the RIAA and MPAA got the idea from.
There were times when I would actually code for 35-45 hours a week. Assuming "code" includes the wrote, run, crash, debug, rinse and repeat cycle.
These days I am lucky if I actually code more then 5 hours a week on average. I spend most of my times doing administrative tasks, being interrupted by coworkers and attending ineffective meetings.
N9KUB here, but I haven't used it much since the early 90's.
I build Windows installations about 6-8 times per year and deploy third party applications 'silently' 1-2 times per year and have to agree that most of the tools are complete garbage. This is mostly due to Microsofts completely f'd up, unfriendly and poorly documented Windows Installer. All the third party installers try to do tricks to work around the gaps in the Windows Installer, which ends up creating still more problems.
The bigger question here is what the hell were they doing changing installation building tools only a couple of weeks before the biggest update they have done in years?!
And yes I am an Eve player and yes I did end up with my boot.ini file deleted. Fortunately I hadn't yet rebooted when word of the problem got out and I was able to fix things.
While this is sort of true in that a not for profit has to actually make an effort to put there resources towards the goal stated in their charter. A for profit corporation can blow all there money on Pocky and Jolt I suppose.
It's not so much limits on how you raise money or what you can spend it on. It's more a case of accountability and visibility. In the case of most not for profit corporations your books are more open to the public, although it make take some hoop jumping to get a look at them. For profit corporations can keep things much more hidden from view.
Yes a high-sec POS is useful, but only as a place to do blueprint research. For this purpose high-sec is very nice because if the POS is attacked CONCORD will come to your aid even if at war. Combined with the inability to bring a capital ship into high-sec space makes it almost impossible for a high-sec POS to be destroyed. At least until the change the rules. ;-)
See there's the problem. No one cares about dividends any more. They only care about the price going up so they can sell it. Most stock isn't held long enough for most people to even see a dividend, if they ever even give one. ;-)
I have to agree here. In my 'clubbing' days, you didn't even bother leaving the house until 10-11PM , unless you were doing dinner before hitting the clubs. Even then you never went out before 8-9PM. ;)
From my experiences the type 1 person you mention would be called a Team Lead, while type 2 would be called a Project Manager. I completely agree that these are really two different types of people and have yet to come across anyone that can do both jobs well. Particularly at the same time.
I just hope the new Comcast DVR's are basically Series 3 Tivo's with a Comcast label. Then it would be worth paying Comcast $5-$10 a month for a DVR.