I'm a 65 year old. That's incredibly silly (not worth a stronger word), I don't want to be a 'manager', I've always made good money and had a flexible life by being a contractor. Still perhaps this is just a troll that I shouldn't have bothered to feed?
Agree, I'm 65. I'm being offered work but I went back to university part-time, so I'm being careful what I take. A few random comments about older-working:
Ads are often skewed by language: 'passionate' and 'dynamic' as synonyms for very young
People pre-suppose that we want to be senior, I don't just want to code and (preferably) be paid
Niche skills help, I do Perl and I speak French
Flexibility helps, I do contract work and don't want permanent
Attitude helps, I'm still learning and still enjoying it
Hope that helps. I think that people 'my age' can bring a lot to the party. One (unpopular) thing is looking at something and knowing it's stupid because I've seen it fail about fifty times already. Experience.
I think the Titanic could pop up again (re-floated by an undersea cataclysm, of course) and anyone left aboard are now flesh-eating zombies. That would work?
There's a saying that I will translate from French, to wit: 'Eat shit, 10000000 flies cannot be wrong'. In the same vein, your Mr. Trump is good because he has a lot of cash?
Nos II, II and IV. Personally, I can wait, there are so many 'better' SF films. It's paradoxical (and should be a named law) that a big budget tends to make a bad film. Actually it's probably something to do with the fallacy of composition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm proud of my company for trying to adapt to the times
That's not 'adapting', it's giving in to discourtesy. I'm 65. live in London, love the cinema but have nearly given up going because of trite US films (explosion, car chase, explosion), ticket prices, price of snacks and inconsiderate morons with mobiles. When this 'adaptation' comes here, I'll stop entirely.
Sorry about the 'couplet'. Yet another reason (with price, privacy and ethical concerns about UK taxes) that I prefer, slightly amateur, roll your own, home-automation rather than hooking up with the big providers.
It looks a lot less slick, but it's functional and will only leak information that I choose to the wider intertubes. Also, it's pleasant to talk to and share some community with other like-minded anoraks (geeks, I think in the US). So it's Pi, Perl (yes, I do it for a rather meager living) and X10 (I am hoping to phase that out this year) and upgrades, enhancements at my own rhythm. I actually got burnt by Meraki: http://www.dslreports.com/show..., a while ago, not quite the same thing but hard lesson learnt. As the first post said, so concisely:
Funny, me too, somewhat. The current neo-liberal trade project which can be basically stated as "hooray for large corporations and f*** the 'people' incessantly in every orifice" (TPP,TISA,TTIP etc) bring us alienation, shit jobs, degraded environment, copyright and IP madness all negotiated in secrecy: http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
I don't trust Trump, of course, plus he'll probably start WWIII and then say 'He started it' (of course, that will solve the trade problems, and similarly to post Black Death, labour will be at a premium, but that's probably not a good reason to have it?). But, Hillary (like Cameron and his friends, here in the UK) is bought and paid for, Trump, Sanders and Corbyn are not.
I'm a Raspberry Pi and an open source 'enthusiast'. I'm not a big Amazon fan, they don't really pay taxes here in the UK, for example and somewhat dominate the online retail space. I use http://www.hive.co.uk/ for books, because they also support local bookshops. So, I'm somewhat prejudiced.
That said, why on earth would I build my own Echo, using my own hardware, so that it can probably 'listen' or make use of my data in some way to further the march of Amazon? I don't think so, as they say. There's lots of non-Amazon home automation projects and, if there are none that suit, just buy some relays and ping the GPIO pins with your own programs. As they (we) say, if it's free, then you are the product.
Actually, I give up! I'm a Brit and I volunteer in London schools. I presume that this is some form of shill? I'll cede you the Arduino points however. Have a good day!
Nope:
1. First, giving them is essentially destructive in that it is an anti-competitive use of public funds
2. Currently the 'micro-python' editor is only available as an.exe (that may change)
3. The Pi costs more because it's actually useful, rather than being an Arduino--
4. Actually, if they wanted 'this', they could have got behind the Arduino itself
This is a partial trojan from Microsoft, Google and some of the other cheerleaders packaged as 'generosity' and 'education'.
Yes, exactly. I've worked on/off as a BBC contractor and watched the top of BBC technology swing from open-source(-ish) to Microsoft, in the time of Ashley Highfield and especially Eric Huggers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ent....
This is a hugely dickish move by the BBC. The Pi is already solidly and explicitly established as the reincarnation of the ideas behind the BBC Micro, and the BBC should have just got on board and supported it. While there's a case to be made that a tiny embedded board like this doesn't compete with a Pi in hardware terms, it does compete with it for class time, attention and support.
Like most older Brits, I have a lot of affection for the BBC, but in the last 10 - 15 years, it has lost its way both for technology and TV output.
In one of the Jurassic Parks. 'No, you're making a whole load of brand new mistakes'. Sorry to be so down on this, but operating systems are quite complex and the open source ones need a decent community as well.
Actually, the Tube in London is ancient (I'm not going to say 150 years old, because it was steam at the start) and still running, with problems. It's also over-capacity, to the extent that the entrance barriers sometimes need to be closed at some stations. So BART is a child or an adolescent by comparison. Actually, maybe the problems are problems of adolescence!
I've noticed that Google (which hasn't actually paid any significant taxes in the UK, somewhat the fault of our feeble HMRC) is encroaching on UK education and now public healthcare.
In UK education (where, as an 'old' IT guy, I do some volunteering) they are offering Chromebooks, apps (ugh) and dashboards. All student data is held safely in the Google cloud (oh goody!) and most of it is currently free, because, of course, they get data and analytics. We, of course, get potential/actual lock-in. Google is not our altruistic friend or neighbour.
So now Google is 'contributing' to the NHS. I have deep (mind?) respect for Google's technical chops but I don't want this. If we do this (and certainly it's worth thinking about AI in health) I'd prefer a university or public health research group to do it. Google could start paying taxes too, that would help the NHS, at the moment (as another contributor has remarked) we subsidise them
Lastly these are neural network/statistical 'learners', so I'm not sure how much explanatory power they have? Quote 'the patient is bleeding because 36 and the answer is 42'. Enough already.
One of those people who think that everything can be done on a smartphone
That's the 'future' of computing, according to manufacturers and politicians. For little people, hacking, open source projects (even though large corporations benefit) and general 'invention' is a bit dangerous. Better done in a government or corporate setting, smartphone lets the consumer consume 'monetised' media and play Candy Crush Saga. Iphones and MacBooks are for being cool but products of total design control. You don't want ports to plug stuff in, you just need to use what we decide you can use and make money from. Even the hack stuff is trending towards pretty blue and pink, 'hack on this, but not very much'.
Incidentally, I don't believe this is conspiracy, it's just a shared motive of profit maximisation. But it suits an agenda of increasingly passive population in thrall to their mobiles (Skynet is here, it's just that it is ridiculous and distractionary) and 'devices'.
The protocol was designed by GCHQ, the U.K.'s signals intelligence agency,
as a Brit, living comfortably and peacefully in the London suburbs, I'm tired of this shit. It's not saving lives or preventing terror either, do you think any reasonably intelligent terrorist will think, I need to talk to my mates, ok MIKEY-SAKKE is my 'go-to' tool?
I've commented on this before. IBM, I believe, called this 'functional pricing' in the 1970s. When I started in computing in the mid 1970s, ICL (UK mainframe manufacturer) had two printers, a 300 lines per minute and a 600 lines per minute, no difference except a couple of resistors (this was pre 'unlock') and, of course, the price.
Of course, theoretically, 'competition' in 'markets' should stamp this out. However, a great deal of competition now seems to be for the best cheating (VW et al.) and best regulatory capture (DMCA etc.). Bless 'shareholder value' and screw the consumer.
Slashdot Mirror
Here we come: http://www.urbandictionary.com... bloody scientists messing about with nature. No good will ever come of it I tell you.
I'm a 65 year old. That's incredibly silly (not worth a stronger word), I don't want to be a 'manager', I've always made good money and had a flexible life by being a contractor. Still perhaps this is just a troll that I shouldn't have bothered to feed?
Hope that helps. I think that people 'my age' can bring a lot to the party. One (unpopular) thing is looking at something and knowing it's stupid because I've seen it fail about fifty times already. Experience.
while people struggle to avoid them
Yes, you're probably right. That's depressing isn't it? And same with popular music 'industry' too, but then I'm old and grumpy.
I think the Titanic could pop up again (re-floated by an undersea cataclysm, of course) and anyone left aboard are now flesh-eating zombies. That would work?
There's a saying that I will translate from French, to wit: 'Eat shit, 10000000 flies cannot be wrong'. In the same vein, your Mr. Trump is good because he has a lot of cash?
Nos II, II and IV. Personally, I can wait, there are so many 'better' SF films. It's paradoxical (and should be a named law) that a big budget tends to make a bad film. Actually it's probably something to do with the fallacy of composition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's not 'adapting', it's giving in to discourtesy. I'm 65. live in London, love the cinema but have nearly given up going because of trite US films (explosion, car chase, explosion), ticket prices, price of snacks and inconsiderate morons with mobiles. When this 'adaptation' comes here, I'll stop entirely.
It looks a lot less slick, but it's functional and will only leak information that I choose to the wider intertubes. Also, it's pleasant to talk to and share some community with other like-minded anoraks (geeks, I think in the US). So it's Pi, Perl (yes, I do it for a rather meager living) and X10 (I am hoping to phase that out this year) and upgrades, enhancements at my own rhythm. I actually got burnt by Meraki: http://www.dslreports.com/show..., a while ago, not quite the same thing but hard lesson learnt. As the first post said, so concisely:
but not in my house...
Yes. It just seemed 'stupid', so I thought it was a 'fail fast, fail often' feature from the young genii in the Googleplex.
Funny, me too, somewhat. The current neo-liberal trade project which can be basically stated as "hooray for large corporations and f*** the 'people' incessantly in every orifice" (TPP,TISA,TTIP etc) bring us alienation, shit jobs, degraded environment, copyright and IP madness all negotiated in secrecy: http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
I don't trust Trump, of course, plus he'll probably start WWIII and then say 'He started it' (of course, that will solve the trade problems, and similarly to post Black Death, labour will be at a premium, but that's probably not a good reason to have it?). But, Hillary (like Cameron and his friends, here in the UK) is bought and paid for, Trump, Sanders and Corbyn are not.
I'm a Raspberry Pi and an open source 'enthusiast'. I'm not a big Amazon fan, they don't really pay taxes here in the UK, for example and somewhat dominate the online retail space. I use http://www.hive.co.uk/ for books, because they also support local bookshops. So, I'm somewhat prejudiced.
That said, why on earth would I build my own Echo, using my own hardware, so that it can probably 'listen' or make use of my data in some way to further the march of Amazon? I don't think so, as they say. There's lots of non-Amazon home automation projects and, if there are none that suit, just buy some relays and ping the GPIO pins with your own programs. As they (we) say, if it's free, then you are the product.
Actually, I give up! I'm a Brit and I volunteer in London schools. I presume that this is some form of shill? I'll cede you the Arduino points however. Have a good day!
Nope: .exe (that may change)
1. First, giving them is essentially destructive in that it is an anti-competitive use of public funds
2. Currently the 'micro-python' editor is only available as an
3. The Pi costs more because it's actually useful, rather than being an Arduino--
4. Actually, if they wanted 'this', they could have got behind the Arduino itself
This is a partial trojan from Microsoft, Google and some of the other cheerleaders packaged as 'generosity' and 'education'.
I agree with the Guardian commentator here: http://www.theguardian.com/tec..., that calls the initiative 'hugely dickish':
Like most older Brits, I have a lot of affection for the BBC, but in the last 10 - 15 years, it has lost its way both for technology and TV output.
In one of the Jurassic Parks. 'No, you're making a whole load of brand new mistakes'. Sorry to be so down on this, but operating systems are quite complex and the open source ones need a decent community as well.
Just quick note. Rats in the feed become competitive advantage, they are ground up, grilled and served up as rat-patty. Nice!
Actually, the Tube in London is ancient (I'm not going to say 150 years old, because it was steam at the start) and still running, with problems. It's also over-capacity, to the extent that the entrance barriers sometimes need to be closed at some stations. So BART is a child or an adolescent by comparison. Actually, maybe the problems are problems of adolescence!
I've noticed that Google (which hasn't actually paid any significant taxes in the UK, somewhat the fault of our feeble HMRC) is encroaching on UK education and now public healthcare.
In UK education (where, as an 'old' IT guy, I do some volunteering) they are offering Chromebooks, apps (ugh) and dashboards. All student data is held safely in the Google cloud (oh goody!) and most of it is currently free, because, of course, they get data and analytics. We, of course, get potential/actual lock-in. Google is not our altruistic friend or neighbour.
So now Google is 'contributing' to the NHS. I have deep (mind?) respect for Google's technical chops but I don't want this. If we do this (and certainly it's worth thinking about AI in health) I'd prefer a university or public health research group to do it. Google could start paying taxes too, that would help the NHS, at the moment (as another contributor has remarked) we subsidise them
Lastly these are neural network/statistical 'learners', so I'm not sure how much explanatory power they have? Quote 'the patient is bleeding because 36 and the answer is 42'. Enough already.
They could read stories about how pollution, ripping people off, ignoring safety were 'bad things'. Oh, wait...
That's the 'future' of computing, according to manufacturers and politicians. For little people, hacking, open source projects (even though large corporations benefit) and general 'invention' is a bit dangerous. Better done in a government or corporate setting, smartphone lets the consumer consume 'monetised' media and play Candy Crush Saga. Iphones and MacBooks are for being cool but products of total design control. You don't want ports to plug stuff in, you just need to use what we decide you can use and make money from. Even the hack stuff is trending towards pretty blue and pink, 'hack on this, but not very much'.
Incidentally, I don't believe this is conspiracy, it's just a shared motive of profit maximisation. But it suits an agenda of increasingly passive population in thrall to their mobiles (Skynet is here, it's just that it is ridiculous and distractionary) and 'devices'.
As I remember, no, more expense upfront and maintenance was related to price.
The protocol was designed by GCHQ, the U.K.'s signals intelligence agency,
as a Brit, living comfortably and peacefully in the London suburbs, I'm tired of this shit. It's not saving lives or preventing terror either, do you think any reasonably intelligent terrorist will think, I need to talk to my mates, ok MIKEY-SAKKE is my 'go-to' tool?
I've commented on this before. IBM, I believe, called this 'functional pricing' in the 1970s. When I started in computing in the mid 1970s, ICL (UK mainframe manufacturer) had two printers, a 300 lines per minute and a 600 lines per minute, no difference except a couple of resistors (this was pre 'unlock') and, of course, the price.
Of course, theoretically, 'competition' in 'markets' should stamp this out. However, a great deal of competition now seems to be for the best cheating (VW et al.) and best regulatory capture (DMCA etc.). Bless 'shareholder value' and screw the consumer.