My eight year old daughter wants to know why the stupid bible doesn't mention anything about dinosaurs. Stupid book doesn't make any sense! Sigh, they grow up so fast, won't be long before she figures out Santa Claus.
My guess is that in addition to being anti-hunting, they are also anti-gun (those two often go together).
You can be pro-gun and be against
hunters who aren't selective about what they shoot or where they shoot. I'm pro-hunting, but I also think there should be restrictions on who is allowed to hunt. If you can't practice gun safety at all times, then you shouldn't be allowed near a gun. It's the careless jerks who ruin it for the rest of us. Don't defend them.
Chances are the new grads skills are fresher, but not as applicable as someone who's been in the field actively working. Hands-on experience is worth a lot...
Are they really fresher? Let's think about that for a moment. Did they stop using textbooks? How new are those textbooks? Who's teaching those courses? There's a lag time in college education, and if they're lucky, it was new two years ago(at best), but it wasn't new when they learned it. Again, I could be way off, but do colleges normally bring in the latest technology the moment it comes out, continuously?
When we have to refresh our skills, it's probably on technology that came out in the past year and is taught by the vendors who created that technology. So tell me, who's skills are fresher now?
In a big company, they're usually worth a lot more than an extra $90,000 a year. The more experienced you are, the more mistakes you've made and recovered from, and not all mistakes were yours, but a lot of them were. There are a lot of ideas and concepts that seem practical when you are fresh out of school but when applied in the real world they are impractical and fail. The cost of buying hardware/software for an impractical solution will probably cost a lot more than $90,000, maybe even millions of dollars. You need to learn that vendors(even big ones like IBM, Oracle, HP, especially today) are not to be trusted and it's up to you to ask the right questions to see what the catch is. You need to learn to be more cynical, which younger people hate and often mistake for stubborn old fogeyism.
It's not like experienced engineers only have knowledge of what we learned 30 years ago Learning is an ongoing part of the job. We can even learn at a fast rate because we have so much practice doing it over the years, and a lot of times we just need to translate one concept to a similar one that we already know. For example, when learning a new programming language, we already know how to program, so show me this language's way of doing assignments, comparisons, loops, I/O, functions, etc., it's still data in/data out, we left the mysticism behind a long time ago.
If we let newbies run things, they would be trying to move everything to java/wifi/ssd/clouds/ipads.
Really? This bug was only present in kernel releases 2.6.39 and newer. Do any Android devices use kernel's based on a Linux this current? A quick search says Android 2.3. used 2.6.35 and 3.0 used 2.6.36 so the number of devices this might possibly help you root looks miniscule.
I am replying with my new Asus Transformer Prime, which is running ICS(Android version 4.03), kernel is 2.6.39.4.
I'm thinking this bug is God's way of saying "You are loved. Now go forth and exploit your tablet!"
The Prius already has "Lane Assist", and I know the 2011 model is a mid-sized car, because I'm 6'2" and there is plenty of headroom, it seats five, and I was able to fit an over 6 foot tall Christmas tree in it and close the back door(not the at same same time as seating five, obviously I had to fold the back seat down). Plus, the insurance company lists it as a mid-size car.
So, unless they are saying the Prius is a luxury car, the Fusion is not the first.
It's really all about quality of life in the last 1/4 to 1/5th of your lifespan.
You can make it to 55 or so with a really bad lifestyle -- cigarettes, bad food, no exercise. But at the point and onward, it becomes really obvious who worked at keeping up with a better diet, exercise and not indulging in really bad vices.
Having gone from keeping in shape, then becoming lazy and sedentary, and now back to exercising and getting back in shape, it's not just about the "last 1/4 to 1/5th of your lifespan". I'm in my late forties and it's amazing how many people who are 20 years younger than me have limited their options by being a chain smoking/junk food junkie/facebook addict! I can enjoy long walks in the woods, or long walks in the malls Christmas shopping:), I can go skiing, I can run or swim at the beach. I can shovel snow off a driveway without needing a snowblower and almost as fast, maybe half as fast, depends on how fluffy it is.
Besides the obvious benefit of feeling better, there's the benefit of having more options on what you can physically do for fun. And that's a benefit during your entire life.
3k for a surround sound system decent enough to fully enjoy a movie? Crazy! I would consider myself somewhat of an audiophile and I love my $800 Yamaha system. That's like saying Clicquot is undrinkable; that anything under Cristal is a poop filled flute.
An entry level system seems incredible compared to tv speakers, but if you listened to a properly setup higher end system, it seems lacking. IE: A friend and his wife came over after they purchased a Bose satellite system and 15 minutes into watching a movie, she said "Wow! Their sub-woofer is incredible! Why isn't ours like this?".
Assuming you can upgrade individual components of your system, then over time I suspect it will increase in cost.
You also need a nice stereo receiver and speakers and a serious sub-woofer(not one of those tiny ones), otherwise it will be blah. Add at least another 2-3K.
Christianity needs to grow up (and yes I say that as a Christian myself) and learn to live in this century. These views that so many of the faith hold from centuries ago are the main reason that we are so hated now in the world. Do you want that? I don't.
Hated by who? The Islamic population or the Hindu population? Their views on women's rights make the Christianity look like a Gynecocracy.
Bullshit. Viewing the Android phones at the majority of the US telecoms sites the phones with FFCs are in a tiny minority of all Android phones they are selling. But one doesn't really expect truth from a fandroid.
Why does it matter if only some of the Android phones have an FFC? If someone wanted an Android phone with an FFC so that they can do video chats, they can do so. How many models of iphone are there with an FFC, two? If the number of models with an FFC was important, then I guess Droid wins! But, it's not important. Some people don't care if there is an FFC, there is a wide variety of needs and the wide variety of Android phones are trying to hit the different markets, so they don't all have to have an FFC.
If FFC is such a big deal, didn't Droid have it before the iphone? At that time I think iphone had zero models with an FFC.
McDonald's has to pay a full time worker $15,080
($7.25 min. wage * 40 hours * 52 weeks)
So I'd wager when you made $13K, you were either part time. Or this was a very long time ago. When you could buy a car for $6,000 instead of $20,000.
I started in IT in 1984. Starting pay was $6.67, work week was 37.5 hours, $13,006/year. Overtime sheets were posted every week and we would fight over it because we needed to supplement our income to survive. Cars were not $6,000, more like $9,000. I'm in my late 40s, not 60s.
People in their 60s can remember when ice cream cones were a nickel! Well, maybe not, but they can remember when houses weren't so freaking expensive, and even better, they remember when you could have unprotected sex without contracting a fatal disease!
The numbers are simple: you can get basically the same quality and quantity of product (be that code, widgets, or most other things) from foreign labor, all for considerably less cost.
If that was true, then I guess all the IT talent must be constantly migrating to countries that pay lower and lower wages? I doubt that. Outsourcing is only about profit. They don't care if the quality goes down, as long as they still make a profit.
This is why businesses outsource, and it's tough to even blame them: like anyone engaging in trade, even consumers, they're merely looking to get the best value for the money they spend.
It's easy to blame companies that have money to bribe congress to screw over the citizens they are supposed to be serving. It's easy to blame companies that pay the senior executives ridiculous salaries while they complain about how IT makes almost 1/20th of their salary. It's not like senior executives are 20 times smarter or twenty times stronger or faster. And they don't pass the savings to the customers! It goes into their fat pockets! It's too bad we can't outsource senior management.
That leaves only one option: lower the cost of American labor. As an IT worker myself, I'm no more a fan of this than anyone else on this site, but it is by far the most, if not the only, realistic solution.
IT worker in what country? Obviously not the United States. With the constant threats of lay-offs and outsourcing and the high cost of living, I have never heard of any IT working thinking that their pay needs to be lowered!
Better still, propose a bill requiring members of congress to serve 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, with full accountability of their whereabouts and activities during those periods.
They're on salary. Make them work at least 50 hours per week, carry a pager(cellphone, you know what I mean), pay for their own meals, drive themselves to work, have working knowledge for anything they have a decision on etc. Otherwise they won't have any idea what it's like working in IT. Actually, I don't think they have any idea what it's like being an normal person trying to earn a living.
I prefer errpt. I can select based on date and time, or I can ask for permanent hardware errors only, or look for errors on one particular device. I can get the summary of recent events first, and if anything pops up, I can then get details for that particular error. You can't get summaries with plain text, you have to read several screens worth of text, which is a pain.
I've never had issues with errpt not working. I think people, myself included, get nervous because of bad experiences with Windows corrupting binary data files. Amazingly enough, it is actually possible to do it correctly.
Personally, I have no problem with "Honey, can you pick up some tampons for me?", but some guys hate this. Now they can claim that darn censorship, they blocked it out, so I assumed you were asking me to pick up some beer.
When I moved to California I was shocked that the pedestrians would walk out into street without looking. We used to call them hood ornaments. The best thing to keep pedestrians safe is fear.
They do the same thing in Boston. I swear they intentionally do not look to the side as they march across the street, even if you honk the horn.
What a joke. I've been driving a Prius for 7 years. I've only "snuck up" on a pedestrian when trying. I'd love to see the scientific data on how many actual pedestrian accidents happened while a hybrid was in electric only mode. In the Prius, that's 12 MPH and under.
The limit for EV mode is now 25mph for the 2011. But even then the tire noise gives it away. I find that I have to inch up on them like a cat, then gun it when I'm only a couple of feet way!
These kind of contracts are pretty common, either you sign it or no job. It sucks, but who's going to make their family starve and become a martyr for the cause? Drug tests, background checks, contracts, all of the big companies do it. As long as the corporations are in power you'll have to just deal with it, for now.
If it was done as part of his job, then I am assuming there is an audit trail of some kind? Maybe an email or memo indicating that he should create a Twitter account, what to name it, how often he would update it, what he could say or should avoid saying. They should also have made clear that if he were to leave the company then he would have to relinquish control of the Twitter account back to the company.
Unless he signed an agreement indicating any social media account created while in the employment of the company is considered the property of the company, then this seems unfair. Especially today when people are using smartphones that enable them to get texts or emails while at work.
And while a lot people seem to think that only work should happen during official work hours, remember that a lot of jobs are salaried and that your hours are not clearly defined. It's not like there's a whistle that goes off at 5:00pm signalling that you can drop what you are doing and bolt out the door. Many people perform work during their personal time, so it's only fair they allow you the same courtesy, especially when a lot of services are closed by the time you get out of work.
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I'm thinking that anything that Russia and China are in favor of, is bad. If they want it, I'm against it.
My eight year old daughter wants to know why the stupid bible doesn't mention anything about dinosaurs. Stupid book doesn't make any sense! Sigh, they grow up so fast, won't be long before she figures out Santa Claus.
My guess is that in addition to being anti-hunting, they are also anti-gun (those two often go together).
You can be pro-gun and be against hunters who aren't selective about what they shoot or where they shoot. I'm pro-hunting, but I also think there should be restrictions on who is allowed to hunt. If you can't practice gun safety at all times, then you shouldn't be allowed near a gun. It's the careless jerks who ruin it for the rest of us. Don't defend them.
So the people who die every year from being hit in the head by celebratory gunfire are just faking it? Also, it doesn't have to penetrate to kill.
Chances are the new grads skills are fresher, but not as applicable as someone who's been in the field actively working. Hands-on experience is worth a lot...
Are they really fresher? Let's think about that for a moment. Did they stop using textbooks? How new are those textbooks? Who's teaching those courses? There's a lag time in college education, and if they're lucky, it was new two years ago(at best), but it wasn't new when they learned it. Again, I could be way off, but do colleges normally bring in the latest technology the moment it comes out, continuously?
When we have to refresh our skills, it's probably on technology that came out in the past year and is taught by the vendors who created that technology. So tell me, who's skills are fresher now?
In a big company, they're usually worth a lot more than an extra $90,000 a year. The more experienced you are, the more mistakes you've made and recovered from, and not all mistakes were yours, but a lot of them were. There are a lot of ideas and concepts that seem practical when you are fresh out of school but when applied in the real world they are impractical and fail. The cost of buying hardware/software for an impractical solution will probably cost a lot more than $90,000, maybe even millions of dollars. You need to learn that vendors(even big ones like IBM, Oracle, HP, especially today) are not to be trusted and it's up to you to ask the right questions to see what the catch is. You need to learn to be more cynical, which younger people hate and often mistake for stubborn old fogeyism.
It's not like experienced engineers only have knowledge of what we learned 30 years ago Learning is an ongoing part of the job. We can even learn at a fast rate because we have so much practice doing it over the years, and a lot of times we just need to translate one concept to a similar one that we already know. For example, when learning a new programming language, we already know how to program, so show me this language's way of doing assignments, comparisons, loops, I/O, functions, etc., it's still data in/data out, we left the mysticism behind a long time ago.
If we let newbies run things, they would be trying to move everything to java/wifi/ssd/clouds/ipads.
There's also no such thing as 100% bug-free.
What kind of attitude is that? /bin/true on Solaris looks bug free to me.
Really? This bug was only present in kernel releases 2.6.39 and newer. Do any Android devices use kernel's based on a Linux this current? A quick search says Android 2.3. used 2.6.35 and 3.0 used 2.6.36 so the number of devices this might possibly help you root looks miniscule.
I am replying with my new Asus Transformer Prime, which is running ICS(Android version 4.03), kernel is 2.6.39.4.
I'm thinking this bug is God's way of saying "You are loved. Now go forth and exploit your tablet!"
The Prius already has "Lane Assist", and I know the 2011 model is a mid-sized car, because I'm 6'2" and there is plenty of headroom, it seats five, and I was able to fit an over 6 foot tall Christmas tree in it and close the back door(not the at same same time as seating five, obviously I had to fold the back seat down). Plus, the insurance company lists it as a mid-size car.
So, unless they are saying the Prius is a luxury car, the Fusion is not the first.
It's really all about quality of life in the last 1/4 to 1/5th of your lifespan.
You can make it to 55 or so with a really bad lifestyle -- cigarettes, bad food, no exercise. But at the point and onward, it becomes really obvious who worked at keeping up with a better diet, exercise and not indulging in really bad vices.
Having gone from keeping in shape, then becoming lazy and sedentary, and now back to exercising and getting back in shape, it's not just about the "last 1/4 to 1/5th of your lifespan". I'm in my late forties and it's amazing how many people who are 20 years younger than me have limited their options by being a chain smoking/junk food junkie/facebook addict! I can enjoy long walks in the woods, or long walks in the malls Christmas shopping :), I can go skiing, I can run or swim at the beach. I can shovel snow off a driveway without needing a snowblower and almost as fast, maybe half as fast, depends on how fluffy it is.
Besides the obvious benefit of feeling better, there's the benefit of having more options on what you can physically do for fun. And that's a benefit during your entire life.
Sorry, I meant to add that $3,000 is cheap. You can spend a lot more than $3,000 on just the receiver or sub-woofer alone.
3k for a surround sound system decent enough to fully enjoy a movie? Crazy! I would consider myself somewhat of an audiophile and I love my $800 Yamaha system. That's like saying Clicquot is undrinkable; that anything under Cristal is a poop filled flute.
An entry level system seems incredible compared to tv speakers, but if you listened to a properly setup higher end system, it seems lacking. IE: A friend and his wife came over after they purchased a Bose satellite system and 15 minutes into watching a movie, she said "Wow! Their sub-woofer is incredible! Why isn't ours like this?".
Assuming you can upgrade individual components of your system, then over time I suspect it will increase in cost.
You also need a nice stereo receiver and speakers and a serious sub-woofer(not one of those tiny ones), otherwise it will be blah. Add at least another 2-3K.
Christianity needs to grow up (and yes I say that as a Christian myself) and learn to live in this century. These views that so many of the faith hold from centuries ago are the main reason that we are so hated now in the world. Do you want that? I don't.
Hated by who? The Islamic population or the Hindu population? Their views on women's rights make the Christianity look like a Gynecocracy.
Bullshit. Viewing the Android phones at the majority of the US telecoms sites the phones with FFCs are in a tiny minority of all Android phones they are selling. But one doesn't really expect truth from a fandroid.
Why does it matter if only some of the Android phones have an FFC? If someone wanted an Android phone with an FFC so that they can do video chats, they can do so. How many models of iphone are there with an FFC, two? If the number of models with an FFC was important, then I guess Droid wins! But, it's not important. Some people don't care if there is an FFC, there is a wide variety of needs and the wide variety of Android phones are trying to hit the different markets, so they don't all have to have an FFC.
If FFC is such a big deal, didn't Droid have it before the iphone? At that time I think iphone had zero models with an FFC.
Seriously,
How old are you? 67
McDonald's has to pay a full time worker $15,080 ($7.25 min. wage * 40 hours * 52 weeks)
So I'd wager when you made $13K, you were either part time. Or this was a very long time ago. When you could buy a car for $6,000 instead of $20,000.
I started in IT in 1984. Starting pay was $6.67, work week was 37.5 hours, $13,006/year. Overtime sheets were posted every week and we would fight over it because we needed to supplement our income to survive. Cars were not $6,000, more like $9,000. I'm in my late 40s, not 60s.
People in their 60s can remember when ice cream cones were a nickel! Well, maybe not, but they can remember when houses weren't so freaking expensive, and even better, they remember when you could have unprotected sex without contracting a fatal disease!
The numbers are simple: you can get basically the same quality and quantity of product (be that code, widgets, or most other things) from foreign labor, all for considerably less cost.
If that was true, then I guess all the IT talent must be constantly migrating to countries that pay lower and lower wages? I doubt that. Outsourcing is only about profit. They don't care if the quality goes down, as long as they still make a profit.
This is why businesses outsource, and it's tough to even blame them: like anyone engaging in trade, even consumers, they're merely looking to get the best value for the money they spend.
It's easy to blame companies that have money to bribe congress to screw over the citizens they are supposed to be serving. It's easy to blame companies that pay the senior executives ridiculous salaries while they complain about how IT makes almost 1/20th of their salary. It's not like senior executives are 20 times smarter or twenty times stronger or faster. And they don't pass the savings to the customers! It goes into their fat pockets! It's too bad we can't outsource senior management.
That leaves only one option: lower the cost of American labor. As an IT worker myself, I'm no more a fan of this than anyone else on this site, but it is by far the most, if not the only, realistic solution.
IT worker in what country? Obviously not the United States. With the constant threats of lay-offs and outsourcing and the high cost of living, I have never heard of any IT working thinking that their pay needs to be lowered!
Better still, propose a bill requiring members of congress to serve 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, with full accountability of their whereabouts and activities during those periods.
They're on salary. Make them work at least 50 hours per week, carry a pager(cellphone, you know what I mean), pay for their own meals, drive themselves to work, have working knowledge for anything they have a decision on etc. Otherwise they won't have any idea what it's like working in IT. Actually, I don't think they have any idea what it's like being an normal person trying to earn a living.
I prefer errpt. I can select based on date and time, or I can ask for permanent hardware errors only, or look for errors on one particular device. I can get the summary of recent events first, and if anything pops up, I can then get details for that particular error. You can't get summaries with plain text, you have to read several screens worth of text, which is a pain.
I've never had issues with errpt not working. I think people, myself included, get nervous because of bad experiences with Windows corrupting binary data files. Amazingly enough, it is actually possible to do it correctly.
Personally, I have no problem with "Honey, can you pick up some tampons for me?", but some guys hate this. Now they can claim that darn censorship, they blocked it out, so I assumed you were asking me to pick up some beer.
When I moved to California I was shocked that the pedestrians would walk out into street without looking. We used to call them hood ornaments. The best thing to keep pedestrians safe is fear.
They do the same thing in Boston. I swear they intentionally do not look to the side as they march across the street, even if you honk the horn.
What a joke. I've been driving a Prius for 7 years. I've only "snuck up" on a pedestrian when trying. I'd love to see the scientific data on how many actual pedestrian accidents happened while a hybrid was in electric only mode. In the Prius, that's 12 MPH and under.
The limit for EV mode is now 25mph for the 2011. But even then the tire noise gives it away. I find that I have to inch up on them like a cat, then gun it when I'm only a couple of feet way!
And you actually signed this agreement ???!
These kind of contracts are pretty common, either you sign it or no job. It sucks, but who's going to make their family starve and become a martyr for the cause? Drug tests, background checks, contracts, all of the big companies do it. As long as the corporations are in power you'll have to just deal with it, for now.
If it was done as part of his job, then I am assuming there is an audit trail of some kind? Maybe an email or memo indicating that he should create a Twitter account, what to name it, how often he would update it, what he could say or should avoid saying. They should also have made clear that if he were to leave the company then he would have to relinquish control of the Twitter account back to the company.
Unless he signed an agreement indicating any social media account created while in the employment of the company is considered the property of the company, then this seems unfair. Especially today when people are using smartphones that enable them to get texts or emails while at work.
And while a lot people seem to think that only work should happen during official work hours, remember that a lot of jobs are salaried and that your hours are not clearly defined. It's not like there's a whistle that goes off at 5:00pm signalling that you can drop what you are doing and bolt out the door. Many people perform work during their personal time, so it's only fair they allow you the same courtesy, especially when a lot of services are closed by the time you get out of work.
The only people who worry about the "anti-you" crowd are those who don't know what they are talking about.
Like Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei or Charles Darwin?