1. Hi-tech Attrition Enhancement specialist, ala George Clooney in "Up in the Air". Hope you know martial arts & can run fast.
2. Auctioning off assets of failed technology companies. Lots of moving-stuff-around there.
3. Factory job at Foxcon.
4. One of Larry Ellisons sherpas.
Back in the (coughcough) 80s, I remember how exciting it was to dial into a FIDOnet BBS (back when phones actually had dials), post a message to an echomail group, and be able to get an answer within days! All for free, or at least subsidized by the dedicated people who had setup FIDO servers and modems. Everyone who was anyone had a FIDOnet handle. "Wow" I thought! This technology could make the USPS obsolete! Almost as kewl as the fledgling usenet, which required you to have access to that government-run internet thing.
If you think about it, this is the biggest outrage of the speech, because America used to make our living by manufacturing. I liked how this sounds, but on further consideration, it feels like we’re conceding manufacturing prowess to other nations. Since manufacturing fuels jobs, that’s a serious problem.
Americans used to make their living by hunting for wild animals with pointed sticks. Things change. The age of American manufacturing is being replaced by a knowledge-based, service-oriented economy. Even now that paradigm, like the assembly line before it, is being outsourced to regions with lower cost of production. Some jobs, like on-site physical construction, food delivery, and some health care, cannot be sent to South Korea, Hyderabad, or Shinzen. It's hard for someone located in a different time zone to repair my roof, flop my whopper, or jam a needle in my arm. The outsourcing of those jobs involves the labor pool moving to the job, not the job moving to the labor pool. I don't see manufacturing as the future of American jobs. The unions had their day in the sun.
In the grand scheme of things, having to sit 20 rows back instead of 2 is not a big deal. Yea, it offends my self-righteous indignation, but it's not life or death. I don't think prison time is fair for people gaming the system. Our systems are designed for gaming. Our elected officials do it for a living, and what's the punishment? "Censure". On the other hand, I wouldn't protest if the perps were all separated from their reproductive organs by a crazed weasel. I would scalp tickets to that show.
I thought that one of the advantages of using metal for airplanes is that it flexes. There are a lot of stresses placed on an aircraft in flight, and flexing allows those forces to be dissipated. I'm sure everyone who's been in a commercial jet has marveled at how much the wings move. Ceramics are (AFAIK) stiffer. They don't bend, they break. Perhaps Airbus is planning on using flexelain (flexible porcelain) which has yet to be developed, since I just made it up.
There's never enough time to do it right, but there is time enough to do it again. That translates to: just get it done; fast and cheap. Give your manager something to crow about. Let someone else clean up the turds.
Image is more important than value; Presentation is more important than content, especially if you're anywhere near DC or Manhattan. Nothing succeeds like spin.
Winning is everything. Nobody remembers who came in second, and winners can get away with anything.
People are expendable resources. Employers know that a better, cheaper, faster "you" will come along soon enough. Until then, you're just taking up space and consuming valuable resources.
The HR department exists to protect the company from employee lawsuits. They are not your friends, they are not your representatives. Their only purpose is to collect a record of your activities that can be used against you if you dare speak ill of the company.
Break up the view or landscape so that it doesn't appear to be a warehouse of machines and their insignificant biological support systems.
Make it quiet. No hums, noisy computer fans, or HVAC blowers.
Clean air. Filtered and disinfected (UV?) to eliminate Legionnaires-type organisms.
Full-spectrum task lighting. NOT a lot of overhead softwhite fluorescent tubes.
Ergo workspaces - Really good chairs, correct keyboard placement, good displays.
Absolutely no "motivational" posters!
No speakerphones or music on speakers in the main work area. Speaker and conference phones are only allowed in enclosed offices.
I guess smoking should be mandatory, and the armed guards should have the option of using rubber bullets. Oh, and robots! Lots of autonomous killer robots!
Aw, you should have seen the Xenix version! What a glorious experience! Graphics! Violence! Music! Command prompts! Destroyed by the torrent thieves and copyright violating miscreants.
Layoff your data center and software staff. Cancel the contractors & consultants. Get rid of the hardware. Setup a remote data center in India or China. Hire a couple thousand locals to rewrite the legacy apps. You'll be fine.
Security problem? Loss of jobs?!? In your mind senator.
The law is irrelevant. This is about appointed politicians having something to brag about in front of TV cameras. "I voted to stop Internet Copyright Infringement". Italian SC judges are appointed by the Minister of Justice, not elected by the populace.
Once again the technologists claim a major leap forward in the war against time thieves. Once again they are only partially right. Spam is not a technological problem - it is a people problem, and requires a personal solution.
To paraphrase George Lucas via David Prowse "Don't be too proud of this technological turnbuckle you've constructed. The ability to destroy a botnet is insignificant next to the power of pain."
I kinda dropped a sponge on it. I squeezed the goop back out, but I think maybe the sponge had some windex and everclear in it...... yea, it was a pretty good party. The leds are blinking, but they're, like, orange and purple. Is that normal?
Richard Reid set off a bomb in a shoe, and now all passengers must run their shoes through the TSA scanner. Umar Farouk starts a foundation conflagration in his undies and now all passengers will have to run their knickers and delicate DKNYs through the TSA scanner. Now if you're on a flight with the Laker cheerleaders, it might be an acceptable tradeoff, but it offers all kinds of unacceptable cellphone camera opportunities, so cellphones will also be banned. I can't wait until some yahoo has a pipebomb surgically implanted in his johnson. What kind of security screening procedures will the TSA institute after that?
I suggest you emphasize the possibilities of what the Chinese government hackers, Russian mafia, and US Customs & Border Patrol will do to them if they don't practice proper security procedures. A scene from "Deliverance" that will get the point across. You know what I'm talking about.
Sparc has received a Cease and Desist letter from the Palo Alto Research Center, also known as PARC, for partial phonetic name infringement. In turn, PARC has received Cease and Desist letters from Spielberg Entertainment. Spielberg says PARC has chosen a name phonetically similar to a portion of the name of their blockbuster movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark". Spielberg has received a Cease & Desist notice from The Pirate Party of Sweden for infringing their trademarked phrase "Arrrrr".
Been using sharepoint for a while. In my dictionary, it has replaced GW Bush as the prototypical instantiation of "lame". Caveat - out Sharepoint admins have not taken any classes and are attempting to administer the site by studying in their "spare time" (ha. right).
You have to use MSIE to do most operations. The "version control" is based on the "brand new in 1972" lock paradigm. There is no API that I've been able to discover, and no way to automate things using VBScript. There is no way to xfer, much less sync, my Outlook "Tasks" with "Tasks" on sharepoint.
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Gretchen Reynolds recommends a break every 20 minutes. Here's http://m.npr.org/story/152336802?url=/2012/05/09/152336802/stand-up-walk-around-even-just-for-20-minutes"> a link to NPR interview .
Somebody please converge my microwave with my refrigerator/freezer. Put a keyboard on it and a handy "sue everyone" button and its an iAppliance (c).
1. Hi-tech Attrition Enhancement specialist, ala George Clooney in "Up in the Air". Hope you know martial arts & can run fast. 2. Auctioning off assets of failed technology companies. Lots of moving-stuff-around there. 3. Factory job at Foxcon. 4. One of Larry Ellisons sherpas.
Alternative could be supercooled LNG storage in the back
Leave the stuff, take the person. How much could they get for Stallman?
Note from the future: Ironically that was the same year the members of the United States Congress finally stopped their partisan political bickering.
Sounds like hiring /interview people from HR can be replaced by a simulator.
Back in the (coughcough) 80s, I remember how exciting it was to dial into a FIDOnet BBS (back when phones actually had dials), post a message to an echomail group, and be able to get an answer within days! All for free, or at least subsidized by the dedicated people who had setup FIDO servers and modems. Everyone who was anyone had a FIDOnet handle. "Wow" I thought! This technology could make the USPS obsolete! Almost as kewl as the fledgling usenet, which required you to have access to that government-run internet thing.
In Soviet Russia, we keep trashcan, delete user.
If you think about it, this is the biggest outrage of the speech, because America used to make our living by manufacturing. I liked how this sounds, but on further consideration, it feels like we’re conceding manufacturing prowess to other nations. Since manufacturing fuels jobs, that’s a serious problem.
Americans used to make their living by hunting for wild animals with pointed sticks. Things change. The age of American manufacturing is being replaced by a knowledge-based, service-oriented economy. Even now that paradigm, like the assembly line before it, is being outsourced to regions with lower cost of production. Some jobs, like on-site physical construction, food delivery, and some health care, cannot be sent to South Korea, Hyderabad, or Shinzen. It's hard for someone located in a different time zone to repair my roof, flop my whopper, or jam a needle in my arm. The outsourcing of those jobs involves the labor pool moving to the job, not the job moving to the labor pool. I don't see manufacturing as the future of American jobs. The unions had their day in the sun.
In the grand scheme of things, having to sit 20 rows back instead of 2 is not a big deal. Yea, it offends my self-righteous indignation, but it's not life or death. I don't think prison time is fair for people gaming the system. Our systems are designed for gaming. Our elected officials do it for a living, and what's the punishment? "Censure". On the other hand, I wouldn't protest if the perps were all separated from their reproductive organs by a crazed weasel. I would scalp tickets to that show.
I thought that one of the advantages of using metal for airplanes is that it flexes. There are a lot of stresses placed on an aircraft in flight, and flexing allows those forces to be dissipated. I'm sure everyone who's been in a commercial jet has marveled at how much the wings move. Ceramics are (AFAIK) stiffer. They don't bend, they break. Perhaps Airbus is planning on using flexelain (flexible porcelain) which has yet to be developed, since I just made it up.
I guess smoking should be mandatory, and the armed guards should have the option of using rubber bullets. Oh, and robots! Lots of autonomous killer robots!
Aw, you should have seen the Xenix version! What a glorious experience! Graphics! Violence! Music! Command prompts! Destroyed by the torrent thieves and copyright violating miscreants.
Layoff your data center and software staff. Cancel the contractors & consultants. Get rid of the hardware. Setup a remote data center in India or China. Hire a couple thousand locals to rewrite the legacy apps. You'll be fine.
Security problem? Loss of jobs?!? In your mind senator.
The law is irrelevant. This is about appointed politicians having something to brag about in front of TV cameras. "I voted to stop Internet Copyright Infringement". Italian SC judges are appointed by the Minister of Justice, not elected by the populace.
To paraphrase George Lucas via David Prowse "Don't be too proud of this technological turnbuckle you've constructed. The ability to destroy a botnet is insignificant next to the power of pain."
I kinda dropped a sponge on it. I squeezed the goop back out, but I think maybe the sponge had some windex and everclear in it ...... yea, it was a pretty good party. The leds are blinking, but they're, like, orange and purple. Is that normal?
Richard Reid set off a bomb in a shoe, and now all passengers must run their shoes through the TSA scanner. Umar Farouk starts a foundation conflagration in his undies and now all passengers will have to run their knickers and delicate DKNYs through the TSA scanner. Now if you're on a flight with the Laker cheerleaders, it might be an acceptable tradeoff, but it offers all kinds of unacceptable cellphone camera opportunities, so cellphones will also be banned. I can't wait until some yahoo has a pipebomb surgically implanted in his johnson. What kind of security screening procedures will the TSA institute after that?
Emails, that is. But please, no "frontier justice". The lawyers would miss their cut.
I suggest you emphasize the possibilities of what the Chinese government hackers, Russian mafia, and US Customs & Border Patrol will do to them if they don't practice proper security procedures. A scene from "Deliverance" that will get the point across. You know what I'm talking about.
(said with "King & I" diction) Et Cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
You have to use MSIE to do most operations. The "version control" is based on the "brand new in 1972" lock paradigm. There is no API that I've been able to discover, and no way to automate things using VBScript. There is no way to xfer, much less sync, my Outlook "Tasks" with "Tasks" on sharepoint.
Dude, like I've seen Spinal Tap in concert like, about a million times. I use frikkin sonic cannons for earbuds.