And I've driven my Lotus Exige Cup 260 around and around in circles. Do you have any idea how expensive that is? I'm not even racing, as that is not allowed, as normally timing equipment isn't allowed. I drive at places like the F1 track at Spa. It's fun. It's not productive, and is a total waste of time. I'm at high risk or an accident or injury.
I don't like boxing, but watching it on pay-per-view is cheaper than what I do. Don't judge other people on their choice of entertainment. It's their money. Let them enjoy it how they like.
More to the point, other than apps that charge $0.99 and are useless, there are an uncountable number of apps that charge $0.99 that are ok, and even more that are 'free', but good enough. Free, being a relative term, as they may not cost, but have in-app advertising.
If the author thinks that I'll spend more money on a subscription app, rather that choose one of the cheaper options, then he's never heard of supply and demand.
I'm cheap and lazy. If I can get something that is good enough, but is free or only needs a low on-off payment, then I'll take the cheap option over a more expensive subscription.
One of the biggest problem is that with the sheer number of apps around, how am I to know that the subscription app is significantly better than the free app. The free app probably has more installs and more high star reviews, since it's free.
It's very easy to need more than 16GB. A pro laptop is for work, not email and word.
In my office, I have a collection of servers, my largest currently is 256GB dual socket 6-core Xeon. I have all of my test configurations of various systems on there.
When I'm out at a client's office, sometimes I can't access my office servers, so I have to make do with what I have with me - a laptop. This can mean spinning up a couple or more of VMs, to simulate some client/server configurations. This usually means that I don't need a lot of CPU, as I'm not doing intensive work, but I need a lot of RAM, as I have a lot of processes that need to be started.
Don't believe me? OK, this is something that I did recently. I set up a Hyperion EPM system, with one Oracle database server, two foundation apps servers, and an essbase server in an active/passive cluster. With the memory settings to be smallest possible, I could just get it started in 16GB of ram, but it couldn't run for more than 20 minutes before it would crash.
Good enough for you?
What, you're asking how many people need to do that? Well, I do, don't I count?
For what it's worth, I find I'm often modding up your posts, but not because they're written by you, but because they are often interesting, regardless if I agree with what you are saying. I normally pick a post for modding before I even look at who wrote it. There's probably some posting/selection bias in modding your posts, as you do appear to post a lot.
Having 15 mod points helps to be a bit more free with the mods. I hardly even down mod any posts, I normally just look to modding up posts below 3, since I normally read at a threshold of 3, and I like to make more lower posts visible to me if I were reading.
My son, it's all cooperative with his friends, doing things like building forts in Minecraft. Ok, they also like blowing things up.
My daughter, it take no prisoners, winner takes all. Friendship at school for her class is a competitive sport. If you are friends with one girl on the wrong side, then you can't be play with anyone else who's against them. Who is in, and who is out appears to be random and changes on a weekly basis. At least they don't like blowing things up like the boys!
Man, if what my daughter is going through is what school is like in general is for girls, then I would have never got to graduation if I was one.
'a workspace designed from the ground up for the millenial generation'
Agreed it's not all about age
I think it is about age, and not generational. As you said, Millenials like it because they are younger and has less commitments.
When I worked for a large tech company, about a dozen miles south of the San Francisco airport, I happily spent most of my time there. It was 25 years ago, I was young, no wife/kids. All of my friends and everyone I knew worked at the same place. If I went out for a drink, it was with the same people. I went on holidays with the same people. The office wasn't open plan, but cubicles. Everyone walked around and talked to each other all of the time. We were even encouraged to do it. Were we less productive than we could have been? Probably.
That was my life at the time, and I was happy and had a great time. Now, I'm married, kids, lots of commitments. I try to do my work and go home, but when that doesn't work out, I'm not hanging around at the office, but I continue to work from my home office - but usually after I've got the kids to bed. I could never go back to how I worked 25 years ago.
Once the millenials get kids and settle down, the next generation will be doing the same thing, and the millennial will be telling them to get off their lawn.
Noooo! We don't want any evidence. After all, we never used any before we starting blaming things affecting the children.
Maybe this means that I can dust of my D&D basic set (original rules). Since the early 80's, people were blaming D&D for subverting the youth, I suppose since rock'n'roll was respectable in the 70's. Now, everything is computer or techno related corruption, something paper based should be nice and innocent.
Since it's about Ms Pacman, I think this is a homage to us old timers, who remember when the original Pacman came out, and when Slashdot still had Taco, and we'd have dupes of dupes every day.
Why, if we didn't have at least two dupes a day, we'd complain!
This is just be current owners reflecting on the old days.
Look, someone with a 3 digit id is now going to post telling me to get off his lawn (although I was around before accounts existed and didn't want to register as I didn't like being tracked on the internet - naive, eh?)
You just have to be careful what you choose. Look at the goals, are they realistic? Look at the people involved. Are that raising enough money? Do they want too much money?
I've only backed one crowdfund, the Veronica Mars movie. It had the original show runner, the main cast members (and ended up with almost all of the huge original cast). They wanted a reasonable amount of money. The production values could have been low, but it wasn't something that was a concern. If they produced a TV-episode like movie, I would have been ok with that.
The goals were not over the top, and the people had a track record of success.
Tech products from people that have never mass produced something is a bigger risk than TV episodes or indy games (unless it's a wing commander successor games).
Ok, I have to choose between a vast media conspiracy, or.... the Murdoch press being a loud mouth bunch of assholes who shout about their vested interests and rail against anyone who disagrees with them....
hmm.... Murdoch, he owns Fox, doesn't he......
Well, no-one's ever found Fox to be anything other that the highest journalistic standards......
Congressmen are basically stupid, scared children.
No, I think you're quite wrong. I've never met any, but from what I've seen and read, there are quite a lot of intelligent, rational people in Congress. Many appear to be highly qualified in areas like law.
It appears that instead, the do pander to the electorate and are concerned to appear to be weak on terrorists (or crime, or foreigners, or commies, or whatever the next scare is).
The problem is that the people who elect Congress are on who average stupid scared children, or at least outnumber the intelligent, educated voters.
From what I've seen from the Alt-right and TEA partiers, it seems correct. I mean, pizza-gate, how could a rational person ever believe that?
I doubt it is true, as in the meetings that general staff would attend, everyone can speak in their native tongue, and there are interpreters giving live translations.
Also, French is one of the official languages of NATO.
Actually, Russia does attend NATO conferences. I can't remember that actual term, but they have some observer status, and there are Russians in the non-secret security areas of the NATO headquarters.
Obviously the don't attend the meetings of only the 28 member countries, but there is still some interaction between Russia and everyone else. Russia used to have the largest delagation to NATO, bigger than most of the member countries, until the Ukraine issues and a lot of Russians were kicked out.
Yes, it has certainly become a tick box exercise. When I tender for contracts, there is normally a requirement for which degree is held. I can tell you, having a BSc in Math fills the box ticking, but doesn't make me more competent in my field.
I know the theory behind PKI, and could create my own poor implementation, but why would I, when there are teams of professionals that can do a far better job than me.
The only thing the Math degree has been good for is getting me upset at the reporting of statistics in the mainstream media.
The same reason why I also got an associate's level degree in accounting, and why I want to do a degree in Astronomy (now that I have the math background)..... I don't know what the reason is.... but it's the same reason.....
My wife says I'm addicted to learning, as I've been formally studying something ever since she's known me.
For sure, on the course, I think only 3 of us out of 12 got jobs from their placement program. A couple of the people had no hope of getting a programming job. I know that I was chosen to be on the scheme as I had already completed one programming course at Uni before I dropped out - I had already programmed in Pascal on a VAX, before being taught how to program COBOL on VAX. I had previously taught myself DCL (VMS scripting). By picking people who already would have had a chance on getting a job helped their figures to show how good the government scheme was.
But... none of that invalidates the fact that at that time, I, and the others that got jobs, didn't have Comp Sci degrees, but were able to make a starting in the industry.
I drop out of university in the 80's. Went on a 4 month government run programming/job placement course at a different university learning to program COBOL on VAX/VMS. I was found a job doing C programming on Unix, where I was giving on the job training and sent on courses. I've gone on to have a successful career, with the last 20 years running my own consulting business. Without this opportunity and taking a chance on me, I would have never had my career.
Since then, I have gone on to get 2 degrees, Bsc in Math and Post-grad in Computer Sci, but this was after I was already established, had changed jobs a few times to better positions and didn't need the degrees to be looked at.
After learning math, and studying Knuth, learning Java, database theory, Lisp, Prolog, sure I have a better understanding now than when I started, but lack of the knowledge didn't stop me from getting started.
One of the best programmers I work with had a degree in English.
A lot of people, who could either be talented or good enough would miss out if only Comp Sci degreed people were considered.
For sure, the rail system in the UK is worse that in Europe (or at least worse than high speed France and Belgium).
The UK is also the most expensive train tickets in Europe. There is no hight speed rail at all. It costs far more, and is slower and less reliable to travel from Kent to London that it does to go from Paris to Brussels.
I spend 7 hours going from London to Norfolk, the train stopped for no obvious reason 1/2 way, then later one we all had to get out and get on buses to complete the journey. It was damn expensive too.
Seek out a psychiatrist, and in the meantime, take a fucking statistics course.
I have another alternative for LeftCoastThinker - Grow a pair.
I passed through the same Brussels metro station only about 15 mintues before a bomber blew up a train. Normally, I would have been passing through about at the same time, but I had a meeting that morning so I got an earlier train. Over 20 people died in the attack.
I am still taking the same metro. I am not afraid. I see many Muslims on the metro and on the streets every day. I am not scared of them, as they were not responsible. I am not calling for all Muslims to stop being let in and have them kicked out.
The chances of me being injured (let alone killed) in another terrorist attack is so close to zero, that I don't worry - and I think that the chances of me being killed is still orders of magnitude higher that yours.
I had someone use my email address to get the confirmation for the out and return flights for himself and his partner.
I have a gmail address, which I got back in the time when it was still invitation only, which I set up as my initial and last name @gmail.com. This person with the same initial (but different first name) and same last name decided that my email address must be his, so he used it when booking his tickets. Normally I just delete these emails, as this guy was the 4th person who has made the same mistake, but as they were for flights, I decided to be kind and contacted him - he was easy to find, as I had the city where he lived.
I can't believe how stupid some people are.
For a short period of time, I was thinking of where I could send him, maybe change his return flight to Juneau Alaska and see if he noticed.
oh my, an this is currently moderated up as insightful..... I have no skin in this game, I'm not American, but I did study mathematics and computer science.
Abraham Lincoln was a man, but not all men are Abraham Lincoln.
Not all uneducated people vote for Trump, but a significant number of Trump voters are uneducated.
Not all university educated people vote for Clinton, but a significant number of Clinton voters are university educated.
Disregarding if these statements are true or not, please just consider the logic in the statement. We are not talking about the entire set of uneducated/university educated people, just the sets of people that vote for either candidate.
Does anyone know how the donation would affect the tax?
If he owes 25% (or whatever the real rate is) in tax, and he donates 33%, does that count as a write off on the tax and therefore he wouldn't have to pay anything?
This would make the donation not totally altruistic.
From what I've seen happen many times, a company does not need to use Oracle's products. Those multi-tenanted, cluster databases with editions,...etc. Nice fun tech. But will the companies use it all? Nope. Only a fraction, and it could be run on other alternatives far cheaper.
What I have seen happen is the Oracle sales person makes the person taking the decision to feel important and powerful. "Look how much money I am spending on this project. I must be a big player." The sales person takes them out to lunch a few times, the employee feels special. Job done.
Ego. Play on peoples ego, and you'll go a long way.
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And I've driven my Lotus Exige Cup 260 around and around in circles. Do you have any idea how expensive that is? I'm not even racing, as that is not allowed, as normally timing equipment isn't allowed. I drive at places like the F1 track at Spa. It's fun. It's not productive, and is a total waste of time. I'm at high risk or an accident or injury.
I don't like boxing, but watching it on pay-per-view is cheaper than what I do. Don't judge other people on their choice of entertainment. It's their money. Let them enjoy it how they like.
Another click bait headline. I liked Slashdot better when we had dupes every day, and what Taco did couldn't be described as editing.
He was jailed because he was a pro-domacracy activist, and they used the suppressive laws to silence him.
This is no different to when they used the same law to jail an activist who 'liked' a face book post.
Oppressive government uses oppressive law to suppress dissidents. Hmmm... doesn't make a very clickable headline.
More to the point, other than apps that charge $0.99 and are useless, there are an uncountable number of apps that charge $0.99 that are ok, and even more that are 'free', but good enough. Free, being a relative term, as they may not cost, but have in-app advertising.
If the author thinks that I'll spend more money on a subscription app, rather that choose one of the cheaper options, then he's never heard of supply and demand.
I'm cheap and lazy. If I can get something that is good enough, but is free or only needs a low on-off payment, then I'll take the cheap option over a more expensive subscription.
One of the biggest problem is that with the sheer number of apps around, how am I to know that the subscription app is significantly better than the free app. The free app probably has more installs and more high star reviews, since it's free.
It's very easy to need more than 16GB. A pro laptop is for work, not email and word.
In my office, I have a collection of servers, my largest currently is 256GB dual socket 6-core Xeon. I have all of my test configurations of various systems on there.
When I'm out at a client's office, sometimes I can't access my office servers, so I have to make do with what I have with me - a laptop. This can mean spinning up a couple or more of VMs, to simulate some client/server configurations. This usually means that I don't need a lot of CPU, as I'm not doing intensive work, but I need a lot of RAM, as I have a lot of processes that need to be started.
Don't believe me? OK, this is something that I did recently. I set up a Hyperion EPM system, with one Oracle database server, two foundation apps servers, and an essbase server in an active/passive cluster. With the memory settings to be smallest possible, I could just get it started in 16GB of ram, but it couldn't run for more than 20 minutes before it would crash.
Good enough for you?
What, you're asking how many people need to do that? Well, I do, don't I count?
For what it's worth, I find I'm often modding up your posts, but not because they're written by you, but because they are often interesting, regardless if I agree with what you are saying. I normally pick a post for modding before I even look at who wrote it. There's probably some posting/selection bias in modding your posts, as you do appear to post a lot.
Having 15 mod points helps to be a bit more free with the mods. I hardly even down mod any posts, I normally just look to modding up posts below 3, since I normally read at a threshold of 3, and I like to make more lower posts visible to me if I were reading.
You've never seen my kids play.
My son, it's all cooperative with his friends, doing things like building forts in Minecraft. Ok, they also like blowing things up.
My daughter, it take no prisoners, winner takes all. Friendship at school for her class is a competitive sport. If you are friends with one girl on the wrong side, then you can't be play with anyone else who's against them. Who is in, and who is out appears to be random and changes on a weekly basis. At least they don't like blowing things up like the boys!
Man, if what my daughter is going through is what school is like in general is for girls, then I would have never got to graduation if I was one.
'a workspace designed from the ground up for the millenial generation'
Agreed it's not all about age
I think it is about age, and not generational. As you said, Millenials like it because they are younger and has less commitments.
When I worked for a large tech company, about a dozen miles south of the San Francisco airport, I happily spent most of my time there. It was 25 years ago, I was young, no wife/kids. All of my friends and everyone I knew worked at the same place. If I went out for a drink, it was with the same people. I went on holidays with the same people. The office wasn't open plan, but cubicles. Everyone walked around and talked to each other all of the time. We were even encouraged to do it. Were we less productive than we could have been? Probably.
That was my life at the time, and I was happy and had a great time. Now, I'm married, kids, lots of commitments. I try to do my work and go home, but when that doesn't work out, I'm not hanging around at the office, but I continue to work from my home office - but usually after I've got the kids to bed. I could never go back to how I worked 25 years ago.
Once the millenials get kids and settle down, the next generation will be doing the same thing, and the millennial will be telling them to get off their lawn.
Noooo! We don't want any evidence. After all, we never used any before we starting blaming things affecting the children.
Maybe this means that I can dust of my D&D basic set (original rules). Since the early 80's, people were blaming D&D for subverting the youth, I suppose since rock'n'roll was respectable in the 70's. Now, everything is computer or techno related corruption, something paper based should be nice and innocent.
Since it's about Ms Pacman, I think this is a homage to us old timers, who remember when the original Pacman came out, and when Slashdot still had Taco, and we'd have dupes of dupes every day.
Why, if we didn't have at least two dupes a day, we'd complain!
This is just be current owners reflecting on the old days.
Look, someone with a 3 digit id is now going to post telling me to get off his lawn (although I was around before accounts existed and didn't want to register as I didn't like being tracked on the internet - naive, eh?)
You just have to be careful what you choose. Look at the goals, are they realistic? Look at the people involved. Are that raising enough money? Do they want too much money?
I've only backed one crowdfund, the Veronica Mars movie. It had the original show runner, the main cast members (and ended up with almost all of the huge original cast). They wanted a reasonable amount of money. The production values could have been low, but it wasn't something that was a concern. If they produced a TV-episode like movie, I would have been ok with that.
The goals were not over the top, and the people had a track record of success.
Tech products from people that have never mass produced something is a bigger risk than TV episodes or indy games (unless it's a wing commander successor games).
Oh my!
Ok, I have to choose between a vast media conspiracy, or .... the Murdoch press being a loud mouth bunch of assholes who shout about their vested interests and rail against anyone who disagrees with them....
hmm.... Murdoch, he owns Fox, doesn't he......
Well, no-one's ever found Fox to be anything other that the highest journalistic standards......
I disagree; it's another bodily function that can be handled in private. However, telling someone you're doing it IS over the line.
I think the open plan office would be a bigger issue.
Congressmen are basically stupid, scared children.
No, I think you're quite wrong. I've never met any, but from what I've seen and read, there are quite a lot of intelligent, rational people in Congress. Many appear to be highly qualified in areas like law.
It appears that instead, the do pander to the electorate and are concerned to appear to be weak on terrorists (or crime, or foreigners, or commies, or whatever the next scare is).
The problem is that the people who elect Congress are on who average stupid scared children, or at least outnumber the intelligent, educated voters.
From what I've seen from the Alt-right and TEA partiers, it seems correct. I mean, pizza-gate, how could a rational person ever believe that?
I doubt it is true, as in the meetings that general staff would attend, everyone can speak in their native tongue, and there are interpreters giving live translations.
Also, French is one of the official languages of NATO.
Actually, Russia does attend NATO conferences. I can't remember that actual term, but they have some observer status, and there are Russians in the non-secret security areas of the NATO headquarters.
Obviously the don't attend the meetings of only the 28 member countries, but there is still some interaction between Russia and everyone else. Russia used to have the largest delagation to NATO, bigger than most of the member countries, until the Ukraine issues and a lot of Russians were kicked out.
Yes, it has certainly become a tick box exercise. When I tender for contracts, there is normally a requirement for which degree is held. I can tell you, having a BSc in Math fills the box ticking, but doesn't make me more competent in my field.
I know the theory behind PKI, and could create my own poor implementation, but why would I, when there are teams of professionals that can do a far better job than me.
The only thing the Math degree has been good for is getting me upset at the reporting of statistics in the mainstream media.
The same reason why I also got an associate's level degree in accounting, and why I want to do a degree in Astronomy (now that I have the math background)..... I don't know what the reason is.... but it's the same reason.....
My wife says I'm addicted to learning, as I've been formally studying something ever since she's known me.
For sure, on the course, I think only 3 of us out of 12 got jobs from their placement program. A couple of the people had no hope of getting a programming job. I know that I was chosen to be on the scheme as I had already completed one programming course at Uni before I dropped out - I had already programmed in Pascal on a VAX, before being taught how to program COBOL on VAX. I had previously taught myself DCL (VMS scripting). By picking people who already would have had a chance on getting a job helped their figures to show how good the government scheme was.
But... none of that invalidates the fact that at that time, I, and the others that got jobs, didn't have Comp Sci degrees, but were able to make a starting in the industry.
I drop out of university in the 80's. Went on a 4 month government run programming/job placement course at a different university learning to program COBOL on VAX/VMS. I was found a job doing C programming on Unix, where I was giving on the job training and sent on courses. I've gone on to have a successful career, with the last 20 years running my own consulting business. Without this opportunity and taking a chance on me, I would have never had my career.
Since then, I have gone on to get 2 degrees, Bsc in Math and Post-grad in Computer Sci, but this was after I was already established, had changed jobs a few times to better positions and didn't need the degrees to be looked at.
After learning math, and studying Knuth, learning Java, database theory, Lisp, Prolog, sure I have a better understanding now than when I started, but lack of the knowledge didn't stop me from getting started.
One of the best programmers I work with had a degree in English.
A lot of people, who could either be talented or good enough would miss out if only Comp Sci degreed people were considered.
For sure, the rail system in the UK is worse that in Europe (or at least worse than high speed France and Belgium).
The UK is also the most expensive train tickets in Europe. There is no hight speed rail at all. It costs far more, and is slower and less reliable to travel from Kent to London that it does to go from Paris to Brussels.
I spend 7 hours going from London to Norfolk, the train stopped for no obvious reason 1/2 way, then later one we all had to get out and get on buses to complete the journey. It was damn expensive too.
Seek out a psychiatrist, and in the meantime, take a fucking statistics course.
I have another alternative for LeftCoastThinker - Grow a pair.
I passed through the same Brussels metro station only about 15 mintues before a bomber blew up a train. Normally, I would have been passing through about at the same time, but I had a meeting that morning so I got an earlier train. Over 20 people died in the attack.
I am still taking the same metro. I am not afraid. I see many Muslims on the metro and on the streets every day. I am not scared of them, as they were not responsible. I am not calling for all Muslims to stop being let in and have them kicked out.
The chances of me being injured (let alone killed) in another terrorist attack is so close to zero, that I don't worry - and I think that the chances of me being killed is still orders of magnitude higher that yours.
LeftCoastThinker, you are a racist wuss.
I had someone use my email address to get the confirmation for the out and return flights for himself and his partner.
I have a gmail address, which I got back in the time when it was still invitation only, which I set up as my initial and last name @gmail.com. This person with the same initial (but different first name) and same last name decided that my email address must be his, so he used it when booking his tickets. Normally I just delete these emails, as this guy was the 4th person who has made the same mistake, but as they were for flights, I decided to be kind and contacted him - he was easy to find, as I had the city where he lived.
I can't believe how stupid some people are.
For a short period of time, I was thinking of where I could send him, maybe change his return flight to Juneau Alaska and see if he noticed.
oh my, an this is currently moderated up as insightful..... I have no skin in this game, I'm not American, but I did study mathematics and computer science.
Abraham Lincoln was a man, but not all men are Abraham Lincoln.
Not all uneducated people vote for Trump, but a significant number of Trump voters are uneducated.
Not all university educated people vote for Clinton, but a significant number of Clinton voters are university educated.
Disregarding if these statements are true or not, please just consider the logic in the statement. We are not talking about the entire set of uneducated/university educated people, just the sets of people that vote for either candidate.
Does anyone know how the donation would affect the tax?
If he owes 25% (or whatever the real rate is) in tax, and he donates 33%, does that count as a write off on the tax and therefore he wouldn't have to pay anything?
This would make the donation not totally altruistic.
From what I've seen happen many times, a company does not need to use Oracle's products. Those multi-tenanted, cluster databases with editions, ...etc. Nice fun tech. But will the companies use it all? Nope. Only a fraction, and it could be run on other alternatives far cheaper.
What I have seen happen is the Oracle sales person makes the person taking the decision to feel important and powerful. "Look how much money I am spending on this project. I must be a big player." The sales person takes them out to lunch a few times, the employee feels special. Job done.
Ego. Play on peoples ego, and you'll go a long way.