... Us old folks call it 'a file server on the internal network'. Of course, us old folks don't call things 'the cloud' either unless talking to people who don't understand networks, so for your case I'll use 'cloud'...
I've lost count of the times I have told people the "The Cloud" is just using someone else's computer for storage. They are always shocked. I am not sure what that actually thought "the cloud" was.
Same folks that are shocked to learn that Google is reading their Gmail.
Have two rotary wall phones. With Uverse they are only good for incoming or established calls - but Uverse does put enough current on the line to ring the bells for incoming calls. I keep them because any phone made in the last 25 years is absolute crap. Been though I don't know how many cordless phones made by AT&T (in China, not Western Electric) Panasonic and Uniden...nothing but crap with awful sound quality and they never last very long. Yet the Western Electric phones just keep on working.
Remember those phones were built in the day when Ma Bell owned them and was responsible to fix them if they broke - and they'd have someone out to your house to fix the things quick - not this "sometime in two weeks" crap we see today. So Western Electric built the phones to WORK and LAST, just the way damn near nothing is built today.
...Most of the Interstate is supported by fuel taxes. Fuel taxes are paid for by drivers.
Who are not now paying enough into the system (highway trust fund) to keep it solvent due to the combination of rising costs for maintenance and rebuilding of the highway system and the loss of revenue generated by the fuel taxes as cars have grown more efficient. At some point fuel taxes will need to be raised, tolls imposed, or more money from elsewhere in the budget shifted to highways. That'll be a fun fight to watch and the roads and bridges crumble
That's an interesting alternate history you've concocted there. So robber-barons, child labor, rampant pollution, and killing workers the attempted to stand up for themselves is you idea of the best the United States ever was?
Personally, I think if autonomous cars can be proven to be safe and reliable, there will be a virtual tsunami of adoption by the buying public.
The lemmings can have them. What is the real push for autonomous cars? It is not safety. It is so you can be trapped in a metal and glass bubble and pay FULL attention to your infotainment system which will be delivering advertisements to you for the bulk of your ride. No thank you.
Not all of us toss out our automobile when the newest model with its whizz-bang new options comes around. I'm still working on the third 100,000 mile cycle on my 1991 chevy truck. If I haven't gotten rid of it yet I won't be doing it just to get a USB port.
Cars cost too much to replace due to fashion....unless you buy into (ha) the permanent car payment scam known as leasing.
...Universities tend to have important data that absolutely cannot be backed up in any normal way. Data that is legally obligated to stay on one specific computer in one specific room and never leave; under penalty of legal action.
Hate this. Why keep the data where it can be encrypted and backed-up? Why keep it in a secure location as opposed to the Primary Investigator's (PI) office? Gah.
State wide we are being strongly encouraged to find alternatives to Adobe products. Adobe told the university system to eff-off and well as a state consortium of CIOs for state agencies.
Yes, pure luck. A gentle breeze in 2006 could have blown Ford into bankruptcy - there were that close. Ford executives made clear at that time and for a couple years afterwards that they could very well approach the government for financial assistance. If Chrysler and/or GM went down it would have taken Ford as well: supplier networks are very intertwined these days.
You really don't understand how unions and contracts work, do you? It is not about protecting the poorest workers - why would any union member want to do that? It makes more work for everyone else and makes all look bad. It is about making sure the contract is followed (especially language pertaining to discipline and dismissal) in each and every case.
If a lousy worker is being kept around it is because a manager somewhere is too lazy to do their job and get rid of the worker.
Too many would rather pawn-off a bad worker on another department or group rather than document the problems, attempt corrective actions, and dismiss the worker if that action doesn't improve performance.
Pretty common if you were driving a 1971 Vega with its unsleeved aluminum block and cast iron head and ran with it low on oil and low on coolant as so many of them did back in the day.
These days cars require so little maintenance that many folks don't even bother with the tasks they should perform. Change the timing belt? Why? the car still runs.
So speaks the 1%, or the 1% wanna' be.
Did we forget the 11 times Reagan raised taxes or how high he ran up the nation debt or how he declared open season on workers by crushing PATCO -and middle-class wages have stagnated ever since regardless of how productive the workers become or how much profit corporations rake in?
A) Violating their contracts by firing some teachers that happen to be fucking up our children..
Don't be an idiot. Follow the contract which has provisions (Yes, they ALL do) to get rid of the bad teachers. If the school administrators will not do their jobs FIRE them and hire some that will. Same for the school board.
Too many bad administrators and school board members hiding behind the teacher's union contract - not bad teachers being protected by it
You don't need to set-up the bad teachers for a lawsuit that they'd win by shredding their contract.
The union and its members do NOT want poor performers in their ranks, why the hell would they? But they will, and must fight tooth and nail to protect their contract.
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closer to thirty. Coincides with the busting of PATCO.
"...and almost 6 percent below the private sector." How does 6% less come out to being paid more than the private sector?
... Us old folks call it 'a file server on the internal network'. Of course, us old folks don't call things 'the cloud' either unless talking to people who don't understand networks, so for your case I'll use 'cloud'...
I've lost count of the times I have told people the "The Cloud" is just using someone else's computer for storage. They are always shocked. I am not sure what that actually thought "the cloud" was.
Same folks that are shocked to learn that Google is reading their Gmail.
because some designers decided blue is the new green - the future is blue so let's make our product futuristic. Bah. Very overused.
...(Americans - the moon landings were among your finest achievements....
Thank you. I wish we'd some something equally noteworthy in the last 40 years.
Stephen King is probably lucky he lives in a different area of the northeast.......otherwise, he'd be on trial for all sorts of sick demented things.
Like "Rage" which was released under his Richard Bachman Pseudonym?
Have two rotary wall phones. With Uverse they are only good for incoming or established calls - but Uverse does put enough current on the line to ring the bells for incoming calls. I keep them because any phone made in the last 25 years is absolute crap. Been though I don't know how many cordless phones made by AT&T (in China, not Western Electric) Panasonic and Uniden...nothing but crap with awful sound quality and they never last very long. Yet the Western Electric phones just keep on working.
Remember those phones were built in the day when Ma Bell owned them and was responsible to fix them if they broke - and they'd have someone out to your house to fix the things quick - not this "sometime in two weeks" crap we see today. So Western Electric built the phones to WORK and LAST, just the way damn near nothing is built today.
Amen!
Not everything is black or white - what a concept.
screw fines - passed along to consumer. JAIL TIME for those that hire the undocumented.
...Most of the Interstate is supported by fuel taxes. Fuel taxes are paid for by drivers.
Who are not now paying enough into the system (highway trust fund) to keep it solvent due to the combination of rising costs for maintenance and rebuilding of the highway system and the loss of revenue generated by the fuel taxes as cars have grown more efficient. At some point fuel taxes will need to be raised, tolls imposed, or more money from elsewhere in the budget shifted to highways. That'll be a fun fight to watch and the roads and bridges crumble
That's a nice story you have there. The reality is a little more complex than an attractive conspiracy theory. http://www.citylab.com/commute...
That's an interesting alternate history you've concocted there. So robber-barons, child labor, rampant pollution, and killing workers the attempted to stand up for themselves is you idea of the best the United States ever was?
Once upon a time a company that made a decent product and treated its customers (and employees) well didn't have to worry about their stock prices.
Personally, I think if autonomous cars can be proven to be safe and reliable, there will be a virtual tsunami of adoption by the buying public.
The lemmings can have them. What is the real push for autonomous cars? It is not safety. It is so you can be trapped in a metal and glass bubble and pay FULL attention to your infotainment system which will be delivering advertisements to you for the bulk of your ride. No thank you.
Not all of us toss out our automobile when the newest model with its whizz-bang new options comes around. I'm still working on the third 100,000 mile cycle on my 1991 chevy truck. If I haven't gotten rid of it yet I won't be doing it just to get a USB port. Cars cost too much to replace due to fashion....unless you buy into (ha) the permanent car payment scam known as leasing.
...Universities tend to have important data that absolutely cannot be backed up in any normal way. Data that is legally obligated to stay on one specific computer in one specific room and never leave; under penalty of legal action.
Hate this. Why keep the data where it can be encrypted and backed-up? Why keep it in a secure location as opposed to the Primary Investigator's (PI) office? Gah.
State wide we are being strongly encouraged to find alternatives to Adobe products. Adobe told the university system to eff-off and well as a state consortium of CIOs for state agencies.
fine by me, they are being assholes.
Yes, pure luck. A gentle breeze in 2006 could have blown Ford into bankruptcy - there were that close. Ford executives made clear at that time and for a couple years afterwards that they could very well approach the government for financial assistance. If Chrysler and/or GM went down it would have taken Ford as well: supplier networks are very intertwined these days.
You really don't understand how unions and contracts work, do you? It is not about protecting the poorest workers - why would any union member want to do that? It makes more work for everyone else and makes all look bad. It is about making sure the contract is followed (especially language pertaining to discipline and dismissal) in each and every case.
If a lousy worker is being kept around it is because a manager somewhere is too lazy to do their job and get rid of the worker.
Too many would rather pawn-off a bad worker on another department or group rather than document the problems, attempt corrective actions, and dismiss the worker if that action doesn't improve performance.
Pretty common if you were driving a 1971 Vega with its unsleeved aluminum block and cast iron head and ran with it low on oil and low on coolant as so many of them did back in the day.
These days cars require so little maintenance that many folks don't even bother with the tasks they should perform. Change the timing belt? Why? the car still runs.
So speaks the 1%, or the 1% wanna' be. Did we forget the 11 times Reagan raised taxes or how high he ran up the nation debt or how he declared open season on workers by crushing PATCO -and middle-class wages have stagnated ever since regardless of how productive the workers become or how much profit corporations rake in?
Amen!
perhaps they'll just go "old school" and park em in front o a TV set.
Already got burned by something like this when a nephew stayed with us for a few days. Children can be more clever than non-parents expect.
A) Violating their contracts by firing some teachers that happen to be fucking up our children. .
Don't be an idiot. Follow the contract which has provisions (Yes, they ALL do) to get rid of the bad teachers. If the school administrators will not do their jobs FIRE them and hire some that will. Same for the school board.
Too many bad administrators and school board members hiding behind the teacher's union contract - not bad teachers being protected by it
You don't need to set-up the bad teachers for a lawsuit that they'd win by shredding their contract.
The union and its members do NOT want poor performers in their ranks, why the hell would they? But they will, and must fight tooth and nail to protect their contract.