Tech jobs were the way of the future until technology itself, created by those tech jobs, allowed companies to hire people overseas for those same jobs.
An article at The Economist details this strategy, which seems to have a central theme: buy up things people loved as kids, and commercialize the hell out of them. The recent Star Wars film is the latest example — the marketing blitz around it (and its related merchandise) was a sight to behold.
Yogurt: Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower. [turns it on] Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink: Ooooh! Yogurt: [reacts to dinks] The kids love this one. [a dink hands him a doll that looks likes Yogurt] Yogurt: And last but not least, Spaceballs the doll, me. [pulls string] Doll: May the schwartz be with you! Yogurt: [kisses the doll] Adorable.
The only people that are to be blamed [...] are the posters themselves. They continually post inaine amount of shit, such as when they're taking a dump [...], etc. Or posting pics of their meals.
I post a single picture with the caption "After and before".
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Tech jobs were the way of the future until technology itself, created by those tech jobs, allowed companies to hire people overseas for those same jobs.
If you need to write a "Web application" then you need access to things people expect to work, just as it works in their OS.
Some programmers weren't even born 20 years ago. New people will make old mistakes because they haven't learned about them yet.
"Kronor"? Sounds Borgish.
A lot of comments have referenced about it but nobody's linked to it yet:
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Yogurt: Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower.
[turns it on]
Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink: Ooooh!
Yogurt: [reacts to dinks] The kids love this one.
[a dink hands him a doll that looks likes Yogurt]
Yogurt: And last but not least, Spaceballs the doll, me.
[pulls string]
Doll: May the schwartz be with you!
Yogurt: [kisses the doll] Adorable.
You can add "how many team members are lying about not eating the M&Ms."
If you're doing your research based on the prices asked at the World of Warcraft auction houses, all you'll be able to find is that people are nuts.
https://xkcd.com/552/
https://xkcd.com/1132/
Shouldn't that be modded "Funny" or at least "Redundant"?
He plans on moving to Japan?
We must be in trouble because the last time I viewed a video on human reproduction, the males were trying to reproduce in all the holes of the female.
They've been replaced by the folks in Marvel.
I knew that Marvel and DC had run out of vilains, but this is getting ridiculous.
This is Slashdot. You should have 512 friends.
AC is right, this was even on the news.
I post a single picture with the caption "After and before".
If someone there happens to sell you a remote, you'll be able to stop that Hello Kitty bathroom from ever happening in the first place.
Yellow pony is best pony! (yay!)
You mean the same Adobe that can't even follow the keyboard shortcuts standards of the OS itself? THAT Adobe?
America does have a lot of women working in the pornographic industry.
I’m game. We’ll see who rusts first.
I've seen your face, and I have to agree.
Do you want Skynet? Because this is how you get Skynet.
To summarise the summary: people are a problem.