Would you expect a car manufacturer to offer a 10 year warranty on all of their cars?
You mean, like kia and hyundai? You do know that MS can still sell XP and maintenance is pretty much the only cost to it, right?
If they are using in house software that can only run on XP then they should have it updated.
What about those medical PCs running 95 where the company who made it no longer exists? Sure, just buy another $100,000 gadget because win95 isn't patched.
Microsoft are perfectly within their rights to "force" obsolescence onto users by concentrating on more recent versions of their software.
Nobody's saying that they should be forced to do otherwise
They even produced a backwards compatibility plugin to let Office 2003 work with 2007, I was quite shocked at that.
You shouldn't be. if MS Office loses data compatibility, they lose the monopoly.
ntil recent video game stores were *really* casual about it
Well sure - tell mom that little timmy might not be old enough for the latest Silent Hill game and she'll get mad because you're slowing her down, then she'll come back the next day and get pissed that you sold it to her. You can't really win, so don't even try:)
except that gender is more complicated than 'man or woman'. Lots of hormones have to happen just right for things to go all XX or XY. If they don't, you get into one of those transgender buckets.
People sometimes bring up prejudice against men in discussions about prejudice against women in order to dismiss the concerns about the prejudice against women.
No, it's usually in order to dismiss claims that prejudice only flows one way. For instance, domestic violence is usually perceived as man on woman violence, even though it's fairly even. When people respond to evidence of increased violence from women to men with the assumption that the man still initiated that violence, you need to do something to readjust the perception: hence the anecdotes.
Now if people were having a discussion about "rare forms of prejudice," then prejudice against men, prejudice against white people, these are welcome topics.
Try being a white nurse in DC or a white person in detroit. These things aren't all that rare. It isn't 1970 any more, and you can't assume that prejudice is endemic and one way - hell, everyone's heard about the college admissions bias against white males, right?
I installed XP on a toshiba laptop; you have to slipstream sata drivers, so you need another machine somewhere to do that. Aside from that, the only problem was getting drivers for various devices (the thing was intended as a Vista boatanchor
IT IS GOOD THAT CRIMINALS DO NOT PLACE A HIGH VALUE ON OUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION.
That basically means that the info is not all that dangerous. It means criminals are afraid of getting caught if they use it, so why spend all that much for it. If the criminals were sure they could get away with it and all they needed was the info, that information would go for a lot higher.
It's nothing to do with that. Cards are cheap because they're easy to get. You can speculate as to why but you can't conclude much of anything just from them being cheap.
econ can actually make useful predictions. Still, it's hard to do econ research, as manipulating large populations is frowned upon if you aren't making money off them.
The problem in IT jobs is that not all decisions should or will be made on technical grounds.
That's ok. What sucks is when people make the expedient choice and yet are defensive about their code. They know it isn't perfect, but admitting that somehow lessens them.
Management will wonder why, if you knew it was wrong, you didn't bring this up and save a lot of time and money doing it right in the first place.
Simple answer: I got tired of lousy reviews for 'being combative' and trying to bring things up. Either listen to my advice or don't complain when things explode.
And it's hard to stay pleasant when dealing with willful ignorance on a daily basis. This is how you get to be a skilled jerk: years of watching happy idiots wreck shit and not learn anything leads to a cynical outlook.
They don't realize the nightmare it will be when some kid can't get their work done because they bought this fashion accessory that can't DO anything and they don't know how to use it.
I suggest you pick up a mac made after 1999 and see what it can actually do. Seriously - fashion accessory?
Our scientists have Linux boxen (the plural of linux box is linux boxen) and they know how to use their own stuff. They don't need support from my team. That is how it should be in most schools.
That's great until you find out that the school requires your PC run some windows shiteware before your mac addy is allowed on the network. Much better to find out ahead of time if it will factor in your decision process.
The connection between academia and Apple is annoying. Apple provides cheap stuff, school likes cheap(er) stuff, students use it, go into real world... and find a Dell at their cube
The idea is to build support for macs in corpland. not that the current state of mac works well on a large network, but first things first.
No, that would be the Sturmgewehr that the Nazis built in 44(ish). The AK is more like the honda of assault rifles - millions of copies everywhere in conditions from pristine to oh-my-god-its-a-smoothbore.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but pro sports players usually make a lot of money and do the same thing year after year. As a developer, I make decent money, but i do different things each year, and I don't compete with some other team (not directly, anyway). If you bumped me up to $350k and paired me with 3-4 other people, we could totally justify a coach to push us and try new things. Of course, it's easier to work really hard when there's an off season that you can use for fishing or whatever.
In our company we're doing an agile project. Only problem is:
In addition to the project work, you have bugs to fix, usually with assigned releases
every two weeks, we pick a new pair of people to deal with the shit random work that distracts the hell out of us (used to be worse - spread the shit around and bother anyone you can find whenever something bad happened. Spent over half our time on this crap)
I'm the lead on the project, so when I'm also the shit worker, I get two jobs, because people still ask for guidance and i have design docs that need done.
I really do wonder if it's supposed to work this way.
Well, if you do it half assed the first time, it's reasonable to conclude that you probably didn't understand the implications of removing parts of the process. What's wrong with trying scrum on a small project first before trying to switch it around? You wouldn't ease into driving a stick shift by leaving clutch usage to the second week, would you?
If you don't know much C, then you probably should mention that to the interviewer. wrt defines, they are simple text substitutions; consider what would happen if x was something like 'y + z' and the problems would become obvious.
Even the biggest idiot knows that he has been labeled stupid, and will perform to your expectations. You'll never get them back after that. Conversely, in our current system - you may have been bored, but I'd lay even money you turned out just fine.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the stupid kids will at best work checkout for life. The smart kids shoved in a corner or made to serve others do not "turn out fine", because that means that they're fulfilling their potential: building new technology, going into cardiology, being a defense lawyer, whatever. But no, to you, so long as they get a decent job, they're fine.
You were just a spoiled brat who couldn't think of anyone besides yourself.
I was bored stiff, and the teachers were more concerned that I wasn't paying attention to the material I had learned 2 years back than the fact that I was in a class 2 years behind where I should have been. College was much better.
Now then, if you have limited funds, do you a) spend unbounded money on getting everybody to the same level, or b) spend reasonable effort on everybody and provide advanced material to the people more likely to become successful in the future? Keep in mind that, while the stupid kids are destined for a life of working retail, most of the ones that sit at the bottom of the grade curve are simply not interested in learning.
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Would you expect a car manufacturer to offer a 10 year warranty on all of their cars?
You mean, like kia and hyundai? You do know that MS can still sell XP and maintenance is pretty much the only cost to it, right?
If they are using in house software that can only run on XP then they should have it updated.
What about those medical PCs running 95 where the company who made it no longer exists? Sure, just buy another $100,000 gadget because win95 isn't patched.
Microsoft are perfectly within their rights to "force" obsolescence onto users by concentrating on more recent versions of their software.
Nobody's saying that they should be forced to do otherwise
They even produced a backwards compatibility plugin to let Office 2003 work with 2007, I was quite shocked at that.
You shouldn't be. if MS Office loses data compatibility, they lose the monopoly.
ntil recent video game stores were *really* casual about it
Well sure - tell mom that little timmy might not be old enough for the latest Silent Hill game and she'll get mad because you're slowing her down, then she'll come back the next day and get pissed that you sold it to her. You can't really win, so don't even try :)
except that gender is more complicated than 'man or woman'. Lots of hormones have to happen just right for things to go all XX or XY. If they don't, you get into one of those transgender buckets.
People sometimes bring up prejudice against men in discussions about prejudice against women in order to dismiss the concerns about the prejudice against women.
No, it's usually in order to dismiss claims that prejudice only flows one way. For instance, domestic violence is usually perceived as man on woman violence, even though it's fairly even. When people respond to evidence of increased violence from women to men with the assumption that the man still initiated that violence, you need to do something to readjust the perception: hence the anecdotes.
Now if people were having a discussion about "rare forms of prejudice," then prejudice against men, prejudice against white people, these are welcome topics.
Try being a white nurse in DC or a white person in detroit. These things aren't all that rare. It isn't 1970 any more, and you can't assume that prejudice is endemic and one way - hell, everyone's heard about the college admissions bias against white males, right?
I installed XP on a toshiba laptop; you have to slipstream sata drivers, so you need another machine somewhere to do that. Aside from that, the only problem was getting drivers for various devices (the thing was intended as a Vista boatanchor
The writer understands anything.
IT IS GOOD THAT CRIMINALS DO NOT PLACE A HIGH VALUE ON OUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION.
That basically means that the info is not all that dangerous. It means criminals are afraid of getting caught if they use it, so why spend all that much for it. If the criminals were sure they could get away with it and all they needed was the info, that information would go for a lot higher.
It's nothing to do with that. Cards are cheap because they're easy to get. You can speculate as to why but you can't conclude much of anything just from them being cheap.
econ can actually make useful predictions. Still, it's hard to do econ research, as manipulating large populations is frowned upon if you aren't making money off them.
actually, it's the same thing with US credit agencies. FICO is just a defacto standard for some scoring.
that's funny - I usually treat the minivans i see as the most dangerous. Usually driven by chatty soccer moms in their own little world.
The problem in IT jobs is that not all decisions should or will be made on technical grounds.
That's ok. What sucks is when people make the expedient choice and yet are defensive about their code. They know it isn't perfect, but admitting that somehow lessens them.
Well, in all fairness, the actor quit the show, so they had to write him out somehow.
Management will wonder why, if you knew it was wrong, you didn't bring this up and save a lot of time and money doing it right in the first place.
Simple answer: I got tired of lousy reviews for 'being combative' and trying to bring things up. Either listen to my advice or don't complain when things explode.
there are pleasant people who are highly skilled.
And it's hard to stay pleasant when dealing with willful ignorance on a daily basis. This is how you get to be a skilled jerk: years of watching happy idiots wreck shit and not learn anything leads to a cynical outlook.
Dr. House is make believe.
They don't realize the nightmare it will be when some kid can't get their work done because they bought this fashion accessory that can't DO anything and they don't know how to use it.
I suggest you pick up a mac made after 1999 and see what it can actually do. Seriously - fashion accessory?
Our scientists have Linux boxen (the plural of linux box is linux boxen) and they know how to use their own stuff. They don't need support from my team. That is how it should be in most schools.
That's great until you find out that the school requires your PC run some windows shiteware before your mac addy is allowed on the network. Much better to find out ahead of time if it will factor in your decision process.
The connection between academia and Apple is annoying. Apple provides cheap stuff, school likes cheap(er) stuff, students use it, go into real world... and find a Dell at their cube
The idea is to build support for macs in corpland. not that the current state of mac works well on a large network, but first things first.
No, that would be the Sturmgewehr that the Nazis built in 44(ish). The AK is more like the honda of assault rifles - millions of copies everywhere in conditions from pristine to oh-my-god-its-a-smoothbore.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but pro sports players usually make a lot of money and do the same thing year after year. As a developer, I make decent money, but i do different things each year, and I don't compete with some other team (not directly, anyway). If you bumped me up to $350k and paired me with 3-4 other people, we could totally justify a coach to push us and try new things. Of course, it's easier to work really hard when there's an off season that you can use for fishing or whatever.
I really do wonder if it's supposed to work this way.
I'd take a pay cut if it meant playing rugby with BG. Of course, he'd be on the other team.
Well, if you do it half assed the first time, it's reasonable to conclude that you probably didn't understand the implications of removing parts of the process. What's wrong with trying scrum on a small project first before trying to switch it around? You wouldn't ease into driving a stick shift by leaving clutch usage to the second week, would you?
If you don't know much C, then you probably should mention that to the interviewer. wrt defines, they are simple text substitutions; consider what would happen if x was something like 'y + z' and the problems would become obvious.
Exactly where are you? Around here, $15k is espresso-jockey pay.
If you want to stretch your brain, pay the bills with PHP and volunteer with some nonprofit to get qualifications on what you really like.
It shows a serious level of immaturity and a severe ego problem to get in a huff about pre-employment screening and tests.
It's not that - most of the objections I see here are people who don't want to do work for free.
Even the biggest idiot knows that he has been labeled stupid, and will perform to your expectations. You'll never get them back after that. Conversely, in our current system - you may have been bored, but I'd lay even money you turned out just fine.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the stupid kids will at best work checkout for life. The smart kids shoved in a corner or made to serve others do not "turn out fine", because that means that they're fulfilling their potential: building new technology, going into cardiology, being a defense lawyer, whatever. But no, to you, so long as they get a decent job, they're fine.
You were just a spoiled brat who couldn't think of anyone besides yourself.
I was bored stiff, and the teachers were more concerned that I wasn't paying attention to the material I had learned 2 years back than the fact that I was in a class 2 years behind where I should have been. College was much better.
Now then, if you have limited funds, do you a) spend unbounded money on getting everybody to the same level, or b) spend reasonable effort on everybody and provide advanced material to the people more likely to become successful in the future? Keep in mind that, while the stupid kids are destined for a life of working retail, most of the ones that sit at the bottom of the grade curve are simply not interested in learning.
what cover? It's like tech support, except that everyone in tech support is named bob.