Damn straight, brother. Gimme a stick and at least 300HP. The other geeks of the world can hang out and wait for flying cars, self-driving cars, the next Amiga, and a cure for cancer. I'll be driving to Vegas with their sister.
I've had an iPhone and a couple of Android phones. I feel like just carrying the thing is a risk. I understand that no matter what phone I carry the carrier is going to triangulate my position. However, I don't need apps sniffing my passwords, doing speech-to-text or recording my every word to send to Chinese spammers & marketdroids, or pushing ads in my face. I went back to using a crap Symbian phone (Phillips Xenium) with a 3 week battery life, no ability to even run an "app", and very basic features only. For whatever reason, call me a luddite if you wish, but phone apps (and to a lesser extent web-apps with some notable exceptions) are hard to take seriously. I laugh at them a lot and the word "pathetic" gets used a lot. People who walk around with their faces stuck in Instagram or whatever all day remind me of Zombies. They walk half-speed mumbling to themselves and running into walls and other people. No thanks. If this is the future of computing then I'm glad I'm into retro computing, 'cause this "future" really sucks.
Respectfully, I couldn't disagree more. The single most useful measure to help humanity today would be to reduce the population size. The reason population growth is a problem is that governments have built *ponzi schemes* for social services based on the incorrect assumption that population will increase rather than use a 100% funded "lock box" approach to insure folks have what they need when they need it later in life. For example, my social security withholding goes to current beneficiaries, not an investment fund. THAT is why youth-to-aged ratios matter. From the looks of things, that's also NOT going to be fixed. The social security old age insurance fund shares it's funding with the disability fund, and the disability fund is burning into the red at record speeds, further exacerbating the issue. The rest of the items you mention such as police, fire, waiters, and other service jobs scale with the levels of population. If you've seen the latest BLS stats, you'd know that those jobs are where the predominant economic growth are actually happening. Sure, lots of countries have incentives for having children. It just turns out that in this country it's a HUGE liability (especially for men). It's no small surprise the current 20-35 cohort isn't interested. They know they can't afford the house in the new neighborhood with the good schools and the minivan etc... and it also seems my brothers woke up and realized that getting married and having kids was equal to signing your life away to a women who can categorically 0wn you later in court.
Nah, they were trying to find someone who could still code in ASM to do some embedded gig. The recruiter was nice, but Google is giving me the creeps lately. This censorship episode just crossed the line for me. IMHO, the best way to deal with a controversy is to let it play out, not demonize one side until it gets all butthurt and causes some huge rift in the company. I've worked at companies with this kind of drama before, and it's distracting and pointless. If we want women in tech start where I started - as a child. People tend to hang onto childhood interests and dreams despite all reason and life's beat downs.
Iknowrite? This kind of crap is how partisan warfare starts. In Weimar Germany before Hitler took power, the leftists and right wingers were fighting each other in the streets. Both would have protests and get attacked by the "other side". There was a lot of political fragmentation (so, lots of parties and groups including Socialists, Communists, Nazis, and tons more). Then the "protests" turned into "marches". This is where some "side" would turn out and try to show how organized and powerful their group was while other groups tried to attack and stop the marches to show how they were "zero tolerance" or anti-whatever-the-other-side wants. The same story in Greece in the late 40's, the same story played out in several Eastern European countries pre-war, the same crap is what tore apart Italy, Spain, and Northern Ireland (where they still do provocative "marches" that piss people off). Partisanship always fails eventually. My reading of history puts partisans on the opposite side from patriots and it's nearly always a force of division.
Americans had better learn to focus on what makes us alike, instead of what makes us different, or we are headed for some dark days. We aren't immune from the same phenomenon that tore those other countries apart. It won't be the blacks, the whites, or the preppers who win in a confrontation like that, it'll be the same group that always wins: the RICH (who are the ones we should be protesting!).
I got the 4th or 5th call from one of their recruiters yesterday. I'd been demure up to this point. I told them to go FSCK themselves and never call me again. I don't play well with censors .
You are wrong in at least one case: mine. I pretty much have one issue I vote on and it's H1B visas. Half joking here but as far as I'm concerned Trump can abort every LGBTQ with an AR-15 assault rifle, nuke the whales, pave the planet with CO2 belching tractors, put on clown makup to gargle Putin's balls, and build a 100 foot wall of undulating penises waving at Mexico. I'm a single issue voter and that single issue is the H1B visa program. If Trump can nix it, I'll be the one person voting for him.
As someone said earlier. They should be greencard holders, instead. Then we at least have the option of fighting back and forming a union or something. That'll never happen as long as I'm competing with indentured servants. I'm happy to compete on quality (*any* *day*), but not on price. I'm happy to compete with Americans (brown, white, black, whatever) but not with 3 billion people from 3rd world nations for the sake of labor arbitrage by the elite so they can buy a bigger boat and a new lambo.
Rich folks need to see some guillotines being constructed inside the walls of their gated communities. It seems like that's the only thing that is going to reverse the "unstoppable force" of globalization. The aristocracy became much more pliant after the French started rolling their heads down the street (the ones that lived).
That's how Level(3) does it. Everyone gets a small office. I worked there for a while and while I have mixed feelings about the place, the office layout was brilliant. Some managers would ask that folks put their workstation near the door (screen facing out) and leave the door open when not coding or having a call/meeting. Others just rolled with the Reagan method (trust but verify).
I worked as a C developer in a shop that converted to both open floor plan and Agile development. They had previously had been using something like a loose waterfall-method combined with offices and fairly private cubicles. Here's what happened.
Productivity fell drastically. Less code was checked in and less of it was high quality code (more comments and BS/fluff).
Morale dropped quickly. We all complained about how much we hated the noise, disruptions, and distractions.
All the best developers (including myself) quit. They specifically cited both Agile and the open floor plan, as did I, on the way out.
We all got better jobs making more money working for people who didn't want to force terrible ideas down our throats.
Interestingly, we all choose to let our next employers know that open floor plan was a dealbreaker. We didn't have to worry about Agile as much. Folks were already starting to to get disillusioned and looking for the next magic-bullet development method by then. In my case the employer specifically had to provision an office to meet my demands. Funny thing is, a C programmer can be a bit choosy vis-a-vis, say a Javascript & PHP coder. Maybe that's because good embedded programmers are about 100x more rare. Anyhow, cue the violins for the Agile cheerleaders to come break down in tears now that someone has said they didn't like it.
Spot on. Chattel slaves historically receive no wages. Cash gives maximum flexibility and is likely to be accepted in more situations. For every plastic-only situation one can name, I can name five cash-only scenarios.
I do completely agree with your conclusion about Windows and consumers.
However, I respectfully disagree on your assertion about mobile typists. The world champ types at 88 WPM. I type between 90 on a crap keyboard and around 110 on a mechanical keyboard with lowered keyweights. I touch type, and I'm nowhere near the fastest (which is 150 - 170 WPM).
In the 1860's we had 3D photography (no, really) but it was a gimmick. Then we got parallax 3D and it got re-hyped but still didn't really catch on.
Fast forward to the 1950's and 1960's and you get to the era of blue-red glasses and campy 3D movies. It was always a gimmick, because just like today's 3D, the novelty wears off in about 5 minutes leaving you with nothing but a headache.
Now jump ahead to the last 30 years and you've got the Virtual Gameboy and other 1990's VR experiments (oh, yeah, and slightly unrelated remember Max Headroom? That was supposed to be the beginning of the last VR revolution). So, here's the bottom line, until it's autostereographic (meaning no silly glasses) and it's perfect and it's effortless (like you are standing in front of a window), it's not going to catch on, IMHO. Unless of course you want to give away LSD with the 3D gizmo. That makes it look a LOT more 3D, I must say.
Willpower is the key, as you point out. The resources are there already (Khan Academy, MIT Open Courseware, etc). The problem is the lack of folks ability to sit through it and do the work, and lack of talented folks willing to do quality teaching.
I've noticed that the farther you go back generation-wise, the more folks seem used to doing hard study and work. When I see this "Gimme a Netflix for Education" crap, I don't see see the problem as one of access, but a lack of ability to apply themselves.
Most people I know with highly specialized skills didn't acquire them via some cushy interactive video, they learned via experience, hard work, and self-motivated study & research.
Everywhere there are jobs to be had, especially good ones or newly created ones tend to attract all sorts of gadflies. Women claiming they were sexually harassed is one of those.
Dogs are naturally social animals, but if you starve them, they will fight each other for food & resources. It seems people aren't so different. Now that our corporate masters have moved the lower and middle classes to the kid's table, folks are fighting for the scraps.
This is just one common way women bring the noise "I was harassed!" What I'm actually *hearing* is "I want to get one of those jobs and keep it!" The sexual harassment being incidental until some better qualified person who happened to be male was willing to do the job for the same money.
Then again, maybe there is just too much grabassery at Tesla. Given how these claims usually pan out, I doubt it, but it's possible.
Reading comprehension is important, bud. The M$ exploits being used are in the DEFAULT INSTALL. They aren't silly links to shit that requires the admin to put a special config string in his sshd_config. Furthermore, it doesn't matter much what attack vector is used to get into the system. The point is that M$ flaws tend to be widespread and in the default configuration. I have yet to see a general purpose Unix-variant install a version of OpenSSH that's vulnerable to a remote too exploit with no dependencies which is EXACTLY what these MS flaws are allowing. So, read carefully and fish out some better links. Every one of these is NOT applicable to a default installation.
All the worms, ransomware, and malware that gets widespread exposure and ends up loaded on millons of vectors is ALWAYS WINDOWS. Seriously. If you use Windows as a server platform you are an idiot. Rationalize all you want, but in the end we can lay this at the feet of the operator's choice of OS.
Are there hacks, exploits, and malware for other operating systems? Sure! However, consider that these full-p3wnd remote exploits seem to get released as zero day at least once a year for Windows OS's and often the vulnerabilities go back for years. When was the last time you saw a remote-root exploit for SSH? Oh yeah, NEVER. If the NSA could have done it, the already would have and it'd likely be packaged with the same bundle of leaked material we've already seen chocked full of zero-day and other novel Windows exploits.
Yes, other operating systems have flaws, too. However, if you pick the one with the biggest target painted on the side, expect turbulence!
The US was ahead of the technology curve vis-a-vis other countries. We learned to use fossil fuels effectively in the 1800's and developed both drilling and refining capacity before almost anyone else.. We bought cars and lived middle class lifestyles before the Chinese and Indians.
Honestly, my perception is that folks in those countries are basically butthurt because they were still humping goats in the rice patty fields while we were building skyscrapers. Now, they want the US to pay for our sins by carbon taxing ourselves into oblivion while they do very little or nothing at all. I'm not a climate change denier. Yes, this is manmade. However, I'm also not convinced that the USA is the sole evil climate killer. China is polluting more than us right now. What about that fact? What about the fact that they have HUGE populations and in places like India, they can't be bothered to try and control them. China tries marginally, but they already have more than 1.3 Billion people. The US population is a rounding error on China's.
Face it, the main problem is actually overpopulation. If we don't do something about that obvious issue, being "green" isn't going to help much. People just can't imagine having to restrict the number of children they have. Just wait until some enterprising molecular biologist figures out a way to do it for 99% of the population via some nasty vector + gene drive. That would be effective against climate change.
H1B program gotcha down? Never fear, we'll find low cost coders by hook or by crook! Everyone knows programming is "just typing" so about a half hour after your typing class, you'll be programming!
UGH! Well, it's not surprising some megacorps want to encourage everyone to be a "STEM coder". No worries, you only end up working about 10x as hard in school to make just a bit less than your business weasel classmates!
Exactly. What does tourism, or Trump have to do with tech? It appears any journalist no matter how far removed from politics has to dog pile on him. I get that he's basically declared war on the press, but damn folks, get un-butthurt and back to roots.
Amazon treats workers like garbage. I sympathize with those mistreated workers. I won't buy squat from them. I told their recruiters the same thing. Their kind of business model belongs in a Chinese sweatshop. They aren't welcome here.
Being an avid reader, I'm also a bit insulted by the way they want to enhance the visual appeal of the store at the expense of having a (much) smaller number of books. Also, a 4000 square foot bookstore is pretty small. Half Price Books in Dallas has a 55,000 square foot retail space with used books you can't even find on Amazon and a huge computer-book section that might even have a programming book on C left over from an era before the cool kids came along. The Tattered Cover in Denver has also been facing-out a lot of books (not all of them) before the news about Amazon's "great idea" ever came along.
I don't have any use for a color-by-numbers bookstore made to appeal to people who's imaginations are too challenged to be interested in a book without seeing the cover art.
I worked at IBM for about four years from 2000-2004. I have friends that just left about a year ago. They had begun the India-shift at that time already, but didn't have any W@H policy. The key thing to understand about IBM is that it's like a small city. They have more than 300,000 employees world wide. Like all cities there are good and bad parts of town. You work at Watson? Okay that's upscale. You work for IBM Global Services as a NOC engineer, sysadmin, or Java dev? That's the slums.
If you work for IBM "true blue" you'd probably have an easier time W@H in the past than a red-headed stepchild working at IBM Global Services. The clients in IBM GS are the table pounding types and mostly in financial industries. They'd just have to complain to the sales reps that they heard a dog in the background of a con-call and W@H ends for everyone. I saw incidents occur like that while at IBM.
You can also bet your ass that the Ph.D researchers at Watson who have any W@H privs are keeping them. IBM was always scared shitless to upset that apple cart. When I used to do security scans at IBM, those guys would always get a pass, no matter what.
Bottom line: it's where you are at in IBM that will ultimately matter, I promise.
The main difference between Gnome and KDE is the underlying GDI & widget toolkits. KDE uses QT from Trolltech and GNOME uses GTK which is developed as a sub-project of GNOME. Of course their custom browsers and mail clients are different and have different names. The desktop file management paradigm is different and so is the menu/toolbar location. Politically, they are run by very different types of people without much cross-pollination.
The package management is a difference at the system/OS level, not the desktop, but you knew that. Neither "lost out", in my opinion because they were never much worth using in the first place. Unix variants are all about the CLI. If you want a consistent GUI with a benevolent tyrant running things and keeping it all standard, go buy a mac or run RISC-OS. Linux has been failing at that for more than 20 years now, despite the "takeover the world" mantra.
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Damn straight, brother. Gimme a stick and at least 300HP. The other geeks of the world can hang out and wait for flying cars, self-driving cars, the next Amiga, and a cure for cancer. I'll be driving to Vegas with their sister.
I've had an iPhone and a couple of Android phones. I feel like just carrying the thing is a risk. I understand that no matter what phone I carry the carrier is going to triangulate my position. However, I don't need apps sniffing my passwords, doing speech-to-text or recording my every word to send to Chinese spammers & marketdroids, or pushing ads in my face. I went back to using a crap Symbian phone (Phillips Xenium) with a 3 week battery life, no ability to even run an "app", and very basic features only. For whatever reason, call me a luddite if you wish, but phone apps (and to a lesser extent web-apps with some notable exceptions) are hard to take seriously. I laugh at them a lot and the word "pathetic" gets used a lot. People who walk around with their faces stuck in Instagram or whatever all day remind me of Zombies. They walk half-speed mumbling to themselves and running into walls and other people. No thanks. If this is the future of computing then I'm glad I'm into retro computing, 'cause this "future" really sucks.
Respectfully, I couldn't disagree more. The single most useful measure to help humanity today would be to reduce the population size. The reason population growth is a problem is that governments have built *ponzi schemes* for social services based on the incorrect assumption that population will increase rather than use a 100% funded "lock box" approach to insure folks have what they need when they need it later in life. For example, my social security withholding goes to current beneficiaries, not an investment fund. THAT is why youth-to-aged ratios matter. From the looks of things, that's also NOT going to be fixed. The social security old age insurance fund shares it's funding with the disability fund, and the disability fund is burning into the red at record speeds, further exacerbating the issue. The rest of the items you mention such as police, fire, waiters, and other service jobs scale with the levels of population. If you've seen the latest BLS stats, you'd know that those jobs are where the predominant economic growth are actually happening. Sure, lots of countries have incentives for having children. It just turns out that in this country it's a HUGE liability (especially for men). It's no small surprise the current 20-35 cohort isn't interested. They know they can't afford the house in the new neighborhood with the good schools and the minivan etc... and it also seems my brothers woke up and realized that getting married and having kids was equal to signing your life away to a women who can categorically 0wn you later in court.
Nah, they were trying to find someone who could still code in ASM to do some embedded gig. The recruiter was nice, but Google is giving me the creeps lately. This censorship episode just crossed the line for me. IMHO, the best way to deal with a controversy is to let it play out, not demonize one side until it gets all butthurt and causes some huge rift in the company. I've worked at companies with this kind of drama before, and it's distracting and pointless. If we want women in tech start where I started - as a child. People tend to hang onto childhood interests and dreams despite all reason and life's beat downs.
Iknowrite? This kind of crap is how partisan warfare starts. In Weimar Germany before Hitler took power, the leftists and right wingers were fighting each other in the streets. Both would have protests and get attacked by the "other side". There was a lot of political fragmentation (so, lots of parties and groups including Socialists, Communists, Nazis, and tons more). Then the "protests" turned into "marches". This is where some "side" would turn out and try to show how organized and powerful their group was while other groups tried to attack and stop the marches to show how they were "zero tolerance" or anti-whatever-the-other-side wants. The same story in Greece in the late 40's, the same story played out in several Eastern European countries pre-war, the same crap is what tore apart Italy, Spain, and Northern Ireland (where they still do provocative "marches" that piss people off). Partisanship always fails eventually. My reading of history puts partisans on the opposite side from patriots and it's nearly always a force of division.
Americans had better learn to focus on what makes us alike, instead of what makes us different, or we are headed for some dark days. We aren't immune from the same phenomenon that tore those other countries apart. It won't be the blacks, the whites, or the preppers who win in a confrontation like that, it'll be the same group that always wins: the RICH (who are the ones we should be protesting!).
Uhm, I'm surprised they still have that many employees.
.... aaaaannnnnd, what? No clever SJW warrior response to this logical little gem? Is logic discriminating against women too?
I got the 4th or 5th call from one of their recruiters yesterday. I'd been demure up to this point. I told them to go FSCK themselves and never call me again. I don't play well with censors .
You are wrong in at least one case: mine. I pretty much have one issue I vote on and it's H1B visas. Half joking here but as far as I'm concerned Trump can abort every LGBTQ with an AR-15 assault rifle, nuke the whales, pave the planet with CO2 belching tractors, put on clown makup to gargle Putin's balls, and build a 100 foot wall of undulating penises waving at Mexico. I'm a single issue voter and that single issue is the H1B visa program. If Trump can nix it, I'll be the one person voting for him.
As someone said earlier. They should be greencard holders, instead. Then we at least have the option of fighting back and forming a union or something. That'll never happen as long as I'm competing with indentured servants. I'm happy to compete on quality (*any* *day*), but not on price. I'm happy to compete with Americans (brown, white, black, whatever) but not with 3 billion people from 3rd world nations for the sake of labor arbitrage by the elite so they can buy a bigger boat and a new lambo.
Rich folks need to see some guillotines being constructed inside the walls of their gated communities. It seems like that's the only thing that is going to reverse the "unstoppable force" of globalization. The aristocracy became much more pliant after the French started rolling their heads down the street (the ones that lived).
Buwaahahahahahahaha! *deep breath* HAHAHA! *turns red* Muahahah! *slaps knee* Whoa! HAhahahaAhahaha! *rolls on floor* Hahahah! Good one. Indian "programmers", *pant pant*. HAHAHAHAH!
That's how Level(3) does it. Everyone gets a small office. I worked there for a while and while I have mixed feelings about the place, the office layout was brilliant. Some managers would ask that folks put their workstation near the door (screen facing out) and leave the door open when not coding or having a call/meeting. Others just rolled with the Reagan method (trust but verify).
Interestingly, we all choose to let our next employers know that open floor plan was a dealbreaker. We didn't have to worry about Agile as much. Folks were already starting to to get disillusioned and looking for the next magic-bullet development method by then. In my case the employer specifically had to provision an office to meet my demands. Funny thing is, a C programmer can be a bit choosy vis-a-vis, say a Javascript & PHP coder. Maybe that's because good embedded programmers are about 100x more rare. Anyhow, cue the violins for the Agile cheerleaders to come break down in tears now that someone has said they didn't like it.
Spot on. Chattel slaves historically receive no wages. Cash gives maximum flexibility and is likely to be accepted in more situations. For every plastic-only situation one can name, I can name five cash-only scenarios.
I do completely agree with your conclusion about Windows and consumers.
However, I respectfully disagree on your assertion about mobile typists. The world champ types at 88 WPM. I type between 90 on a crap keyboard and around 110 on a mechanical keyboard with lowered keyweights. I touch type, and I'm nowhere near the fastest (which is 150 - 170 WPM).
In the 1860's we had 3D photography (no, really) but it was a gimmick. Then we got parallax 3D and it got re-hyped but still didn't really catch on.
Fast forward to the 1950's and 1960's and you get to the era of blue-red glasses and campy 3D movies. It was always a gimmick, because just like today's 3D, the novelty wears off in about 5 minutes leaving you with nothing but a headache.
Now jump ahead to the last 30 years and you've got the Virtual Gameboy and other 1990's VR experiments (oh, yeah, and slightly unrelated remember Max Headroom? That was supposed to be the beginning of the last VR revolution). So, here's the bottom line, until it's autostereographic (meaning no silly glasses) and it's perfect and it's effortless (like you are standing in front of a window), it's not going to catch on, IMHO. Unless of course you want to give away LSD with the 3D gizmo. That makes it look a LOT more 3D, I must say.
Willpower is the key, as you point out. The resources are there already (Khan Academy, MIT Open Courseware, etc). The problem is the lack of folks ability to sit through it and do the work, and lack of talented folks willing to do quality teaching. I've noticed that the farther you go back generation-wise, the more folks seem used to doing hard study and work. When I see this "Gimme a Netflix for Education" crap, I don't see see the problem as one of access, but a lack of ability to apply themselves. Most people I know with highly specialized skills didn't acquire them via some cushy interactive video, they learned via experience, hard work, and self-motivated study & research.
Everywhere there are jobs to be had, especially good ones or newly created ones tend to attract all sorts of gadflies. Women claiming they were sexually harassed is one of those.
Dogs are naturally social animals, but if you starve them, they will fight each other for food & resources. It seems people aren't so different. Now that our corporate masters have moved the lower and middle classes to the kid's table, folks are fighting for the scraps.
This is just one common way women bring the noise "I was harassed!" What I'm actually *hearing* is "I want to get one of those jobs and keep it!" The sexual harassment being incidental until some better qualified person who happened to be male was willing to do the job for the same money. Then again, maybe there is just too much grabassery at Tesla. Given how these claims usually pan out, I doubt it, but it's possible.
Reading comprehension is important, bud. The M$ exploits being used are in the DEFAULT INSTALL. They aren't silly links to shit that requires the admin to put a special config string in his sshd_config. Furthermore, it doesn't matter much what attack vector is used to get into the system. The point is that M$ flaws tend to be widespread and in the default configuration. I have yet to see a general purpose Unix-variant install a version of OpenSSH that's vulnerable to a remote too exploit with no dependencies which is EXACTLY what these MS flaws are allowing. So, read carefully and fish out some better links. Every one of these is NOT applicable to a default installation.
All the worms, ransomware, and malware that gets widespread exposure and ends up loaded on millons of vectors is ALWAYS WINDOWS. Seriously. If you use Windows as a server platform you are an idiot. Rationalize all you want, but in the end we can lay this at the feet of the operator's choice of OS.
Are there hacks, exploits, and malware for other operating systems? Sure! However, consider that these full-p3wnd remote exploits seem to get released as zero day at least once a year for Windows OS's and often the vulnerabilities go back for years. When was the last time you saw a remote-root exploit for SSH? Oh yeah, NEVER. If the NSA could have done it, the already would have and it'd likely be packaged with the same bundle of leaked material we've already seen chocked full of zero-day and other novel Windows exploits.
Yes, other operating systems have flaws, too. However, if you pick the one with the biggest target painted on the side, expect turbulence!
The US was ahead of the technology curve vis-a-vis other countries. We learned to use fossil fuels effectively in the 1800's and developed both drilling and refining capacity before almost anyone else.. We bought cars and lived middle class lifestyles before the Chinese and Indians. Honestly, my perception is that folks in those countries are basically butthurt because they were still humping goats in the rice patty fields while we were building skyscrapers. Now, they want the US to pay for our sins by carbon taxing ourselves into oblivion while they do very little or nothing at all. I'm not a climate change denier. Yes, this is manmade. However, I'm also not convinced that the USA is the sole evil climate killer. China is polluting more than us right now. What about that fact? What about the fact that they have HUGE populations and in places like India, they can't be bothered to try and control them. China tries marginally, but they already have more than 1.3 Billion people. The US population is a rounding error on China's. Face it, the main problem is actually overpopulation. If we don't do something about that obvious issue, being "green" isn't going to help much. People just can't imagine having to restrict the number of children they have. Just wait until some enterprising molecular biologist figures out a way to do it for 99% of the population via some nasty vector + gene drive. That would be effective against climate change.
H1B program gotcha down? Never fear, we'll find low cost coders by hook or by crook! Everyone knows programming is "just typing" so about a half hour after your typing class, you'll be programming!
UGH! Well, it's not surprising some megacorps want to encourage everyone to be a "STEM coder". No worries, you only end up working about 10x as hard in school to make just a bit less than your business weasel classmates!
Exactly. What does tourism, or Trump have to do with tech? It appears any journalist no matter how far removed from politics has to dog pile on him. I get that he's basically declared war on the press, but damn folks, get un-butthurt and back to roots.
Amazon treats workers like garbage. I sympathize with those mistreated workers. I won't buy squat from them. I told their recruiters the same thing. Their kind of business model belongs in a Chinese sweatshop. They aren't welcome here.
Being an avid reader, I'm also a bit insulted by the way they want to enhance the visual appeal of the store at the expense of having a (much) smaller number of books. Also, a 4000 square foot bookstore is pretty small. Half Price Books in Dallas has a 55,000 square foot retail space with used books you can't even find on Amazon and a huge computer-book section that might even have a programming book on C left over from an era before the cool kids came along. The Tattered Cover in Denver has also been facing-out a lot of books (not all of them) before the news about Amazon's "great idea" ever came along. I don't have any use for a color-by-numbers bookstore made to appeal to people who's imaginations are too challenged to be interested in a book without seeing the cover art.
I worked at IBM for about four years from 2000-2004. I have friends that just left about a year ago. They had begun the India-shift at that time already, but didn't have any W@H policy. The key thing to understand about IBM is that it's like a small city. They have more than 300,000 employees world wide. Like all cities there are good and bad parts of town. You work at Watson? Okay that's upscale. You work for IBM Global Services as a NOC engineer, sysadmin, or Java dev? That's the slums. If you work for IBM "true blue" you'd probably have an easier time W@H in the past than a red-headed stepchild working at IBM Global Services. The clients in IBM GS are the table pounding types and mostly in financial industries. They'd just have to complain to the sales reps that they heard a dog in the background of a con-call and W@H ends for everyone. I saw incidents occur like that while at IBM. You can also bet your ass that the Ph.D researchers at Watson who have any W@H privs are keeping them. IBM was always scared shitless to upset that apple cart. When I used to do security scans at IBM, those guys would always get a pass, no matter what. Bottom line: it's where you are at in IBM that will ultimately matter, I promise.
The main difference between Gnome and KDE is the underlying GDI & widget toolkits. KDE uses QT from Trolltech and GNOME uses GTK which is developed as a sub-project of GNOME. Of course their custom browsers and mail clients are different and have different names. The desktop file management paradigm is different and so is the menu/toolbar location. Politically, they are run by very different types of people without much cross-pollination.
The package management is a difference at the system/OS level, not the desktop, but you knew that. Neither "lost out", in my opinion because they were never much worth using in the first place. Unix variants are all about the CLI. If you want a consistent GUI with a benevolent tyrant running things and keeping it all standard, go buy a mac or run RISC-OS. Linux has been failing at that for more than 20 years now, despite the "takeover the world" mantra.