What gets to me is, why doesn't someone tell the police department "Technologies like wiretapping didn't spring up overnight, so why didn't you budget yourselves accordingly over the last few decades"?
I don't think they should have the right to demand we pay and extra charge just because they didn't plan ahead!
or does anyone else find it strange that sometimes Slashdot editors remember a story being posted 3 years ago, yet other times post the same story twice (or more) in a single day!?!?
I work at a large 3-letter acronym company where we develop for AIX, AS/400 and S/390. I'm one of the youngest there (and working exclusively on 390) and I can tell you right now that no matter what other posts here say, *almost no one* under the age of 40 seems to want to have ***anything*** to do with 390.
I don't see this trend changing, no matter how many people post on/. and say they'd love to get the chance play with a 390 to their heart's content. There are tons of bright, curious geeks where I work, but after a short time on 390, they tend to turn 180 degrees and run like mad!
People avoid it like the plague, and I honestly think some of them go out of their way to avoid learning *anything* about the VM and MVS side of things so that they're not dubbed "a 390 person".
390 has definitely grown on me and I'm looking forward to growing old and becoming a white haired "390 guru";-), but I certainly have a hard time seeing it becoming a sought after position simply because so much of it is archaic, difficult to learn and most importantly, not "glamorous".
Of course it is! Haven't you ever played Civilization/freeciv? You know, Research Tech: Communism: Allows: Police Station, Obsoletes: Marco Polo's Embassy;-)
I was dating a this girl once "way up here" in Canada, and during our relationship the question of "which is bigger, the Sun or the Earth" came up. She was 18 years old at the time and thought the EARTH was bigger!!!!
That's not even the worst part, I mentioned this to a friend or two (eventually more), and a *large* percentage of them thought she was right!!! I realize not knowing the answer to this question isn't a matter of life and death to anyone, but I find it very disheartening to know that many people can grow up not ever having been curious enough to learn (and remember) BASIC properties about the world around them.
I have a bit of a "system" for geeks to decide which girls (or boys) they should try and date, and although this is a really pompous and arrogant thing to do, try it anyway;-) Next time you want "gauge" the intellect of a member of the opposite sex, ask some of the following questions (if you don't want to appear TOTALLY like a pompous ass, pretend that you want to know the answer to settle a bet with a friend):
1.) Which is biggest: The Sun, the Earth or the Moon?
2.) What's 6 times 7?
3.) What's faster in a vacuum, light or sound? (the point being they probably won't know there's no sound in a vacuum, and try to answer the question!!!)
You will not BELIEVE how many people can't answer these basic questions!!! Anyway, if you're an arrogant prick like me, you can use these questions as a kind of "litmus" test to see if you should pursue a possible date further (and the best part is you can tell yourself you're not going to date them because they couldn't answer your questions, not because they would have said 'no' anyway;-)
What a collection of bad puns this subject has generated! iGet the iDea already! Sure, Apple machines may be nothing more than iCandy, but iDeally, iDly reading/. wouldn't offend my iSight so much! Good job, everyone. Anymore of these iSores and I might need iGlasses!)
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What gets to me is, why doesn't someone tell the police department "Technologies like wiretapping didn't spring up overnight, so why didn't you budget yourselves accordingly over the last few decades"?
I don't think they should have the right to demand we pay and extra charge just because they didn't plan ahead!
I'd happily trade that irritating wannabe rapper for a game of Space Invaders ;-)
or does anyone else find it strange that sometimes Slashdot editors remember a story being posted 3 years ago, yet other times post the same story twice (or more) in a single day!?!?
I work at a large 3-letter acronym company where we develop for AIX, AS/400 and S/390. I'm one of the youngest there (and working exclusively on 390) and I can tell you right now that no matter what other posts here say, *almost no one* under the age of 40 seems to want to have ***anything*** to do with 390.
/. and say they'd love to get the chance play with a 390 to their heart's content. There are tons of bright, curious geeks where I work, but after a short time on 390, they tend to turn 180 degrees and run like mad!
;-), but I certainly have a hard time seeing it becoming a sought after position simply because so much of it is archaic, difficult to learn and most importantly, not "glamorous".
I don't see this trend changing, no matter how many people post on
People avoid it like the plague, and I honestly think some of them go out of their way to avoid learning *anything* about the VM and MVS side of things so that they're not dubbed "a 390 person".
390 has definitely grown on me and I'm looking forward to growing old and becoming a white haired "390 guru"
> Is Communism a technology?
;-)
Of course it is! Haven't you ever played Civilization/freeciv? You know, Research Tech: Communism: Allows: Police Station, Obsoletes: Marco Polo's Embassy
I was dating a this girl once "way up here" in Canada, and during our relationship the question of "which is bigger, the Sun or the Earth" came up. She was 18 years old at the time and thought the EARTH was bigger!!!!
;-) Next time you want "gauge" the intellect of a member of the opposite sex, ask some of the following questions (if you don't want to appear TOTALLY like a pompous ass, pretend that you want to know the answer to settle a bet with a friend):
;-)
That's not even the worst part, I mentioned this to a friend or two (eventually more), and a *large* percentage of them thought she was right!!! I realize not knowing the answer to this question isn't a matter of life and death to anyone, but I find it very disheartening to know that many people can grow up not ever having been curious enough to learn (and remember) BASIC properties about the world around them.
I have a bit of a "system" for geeks to decide which girls (or boys) they should try and date, and although this is a really pompous and arrogant thing to do, try it anyway
1.) Which is biggest: The Sun, the Earth or the Moon?
2.) What's 6 times 7?
3.) What's faster in a vacuum, light or sound? (the point being they probably won't know there's no sound in a vacuum, and try to answer the question!!!)
You will not BELIEVE how many people can't answer these basic questions!!! Anyway, if you're an arrogant prick like me, you can use these questions as a kind of "litmus" test to see if you should pursue a possible date further (and the best part is you can tell yourself you're not going to date them because they couldn't answer your questions, not because they would have said 'no' anyway
Microsoft. They could ask all their employees to sign it a few hundred times each. Surely this is more important than some crummy online survey!
What a collection of bad puns this subject has generated! iGet the iDea already! Sure, Apple machines may be nothing more than iCandy, but iDeally, iDly reading /. wouldn't offend my iSight so much! Good job, everyone. Anymore of these iSores and I might need iGlasses!)