So improper abuse is when you skim data off Facebook and market to those people elsewhere.
Proper abuse is when you do a Google search on a product and two minutes later it's in your Facebook feed.
Got it-
FTA: Typically, the glitches are due to conflicts with software, such as drivers, system files, or applications already resident on the user's PC.
The machines arrive in a pristine state. Users then add, sometimes compliant sometimes non-compliant software, hardware, and modify the registry.
There should be no surprise that issues will arise.
There are less-popular operating systems with upgrade / driver issues way worse than this.
That 13 year old is gonna own ya because he has become exhalted with the Scryers, has a sweet Tier 5 armor set, and spends all day dueling his homies because he doesn't have a job and can play WOW 13 hours a day.
It's not the computer harware.
This reads as if it were an attempt by a person working a maters's thesis to determine if a pro-linux, pro-privacy crowd would stick with their principles or instead defer to the humanity of helping a family get over a tagedy.
Facinating...
After so many years of having your stupid management decisions crap-o-meter go off you eventually reach your limit. What you are going through is normal.
Over the last 17 years in software development I've seen technology change and survived many re-organizations in various companies. I started out as a permanent employee (5 years) also became disillusioned, became a consultant and ran a small "C" corp for 8 years, got married, had kids, am currently a perm employee again-- but am still living the dream of creating a killer web services app.
Management becomes more about politics and negotiating to get the right tools in place to do the job right. I've lived through several re-orgs where layers of management were wiped out. In many of these cases there were managers that no longer had technical skills who had a hard time finding new management positions because their companies fell behind technology-wise and they did not themselves keep up. But there is risk associated with everything- it just comes down to how good you are at mitigating it by developing good working relationships and keeping up in your field or learning new things.
Being en entrepreneur can be an exciting adventure.
Doing it on the hardware side might be difficult with the start up costs, however, if you are interested in automation or robotics you might be able to find a market gap as the field is just getting going. Just as big auto and big manufacturing have automated, small and middle manufacturing are ripe for automation.
In my case I chose web service applications because software is what I know.
Two critical points if you are interested:
1. Read books on entrepreneurship. Not the franchise magazines so much as ones like
Think And Grow Rich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_and_Grow_Rich
and
The Start Up Entrepreneur http://www.amazon.com/Start-up-Entrepreneur-Succeed-Building-Company/dp/0452278007
These books teach about becoming motivated, learning how to see market gaps (opportunities), and overcomming obstacles put in front of you.
2. Avoid naysayers and idiots who tell you something cannot be done. When someone offers you free negative advice quietly ask yourself one queston: What has this person done in this field that gives their opinion credibility.
Having family responsibliities may force you to be more careful on how you approach undertaking a new business but there is a plus side to not being too much of a Cowboy as well.
Good luck in whatever you choose to do.
So next time they'll get the correct warrant-- and STILL toss her butt in jail.
I can live with that.
As a creepy aside, I believe I went to high school with this chick.
Not all people behave in an equally civil manner. Short of putting up 50 ft. walls around thugly areas such as South Central, L.A., Detroit, and N.E. Philly this is the next best thing.
It's the data handling rules that matter, not the data itself.
If you are providing digital/downloadable items, do not have that kind of "sales" income.
We are now a digital wharehouse that "rents" space on our hard drive to hold your digital information. It's rental income, at a much lower tax rate, with no sales tax at all.
Wow, it's very difficult to not compare the bad idea of going to Wiki for some kinds of unbiased information to coming to some very biased anti-microsoft tech news sites for microsoft news. So I won't avoid making the comparison.
For the 1,000,000th time we get what you are selling:
Linux: good
Windows: bad
Microsoft: evil
This is a typical red meat article for the peasant rabble on a Friday.:)
There are many of us here who love Microsoft. We just get drowned out by all the one's who do not.
Just because Microsoft is involved doesn't make this a "scheme" - as if they are up to something evil.
So Microsoft makes profit, so what. The company that made the components inside the computer you are using made a profit. This morning you got up and ate breakfast - the company that sold the food made a profit. And sometime today you will go potty. The company that made the toilet paper also made a profit.
Unlike the food and toilet paper, you DON'T have to buy the Microsoft software. So, the food and TP guys are preying on your need for their product.
If they don't encrypt the traffic between users then they will have plausible deniability about participating in e-tapping users for things like homeland security or marketing data mining.
On the other hand, if they encrypt the communications they could be asked to actively provide access to the communications of others- opening them up to lawsuits galore.
Lastly, if the communication between clients were open then logs of them could be processed, useful data harvested, and sold to marketers. But if the data were encrypted then the marketees would have a pretty good idea where their data was compromised.
If Ballmer and Microsoft had been wildly successful over the past few years most everyone here would be crying for the Microsoft juggernaut to be sunk or TOTALLY disbanded via political / legal means.
But many say they haven't been wildly successful over the past few years.
Either way the result is the same: people who don't like Microsoft are going to take pot-shots at them.
Every so often we see a story like this seemingly designed to cast global fear
and instill guilt in anyone willing to read it.
1...based on computer predictions... Let us see his mathematical logic.
2. We also often see stories on how the population of richer nations eats too many carbs. If it is true that the cereal crops will decline then it could also be true that the increased temperature would result in longer growing seasons and could be more favorable to the growing of fruits and vegetables. Good for everyone.
3. The U.S. refuses to cut emissions? How about our buddies in Brazil, India, and China who also refused to destroy their economies by signing the Kyoto treaty? Why attempt to heap all the guilt on us?
4. Four hundred million people at risk of hunger? How much of a risk? Are these people living in places such as those African nations where slaughter of their own population is commonplace and also unchecked by the so-called caring World Of Nations?
This newest attempt to fear the U.S. into destroying it's economy will fail. Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up.
Yes 300 down to 26. There were two courses that triggered this:
1. Calculus II (integration) - people didn't know their algebra and it is a required course. This caused a lot fo them to shift from Computer Science to Information Systems (less math requried).
2. Assembly language - people didn't want to learn how to go from assembly code to object code and compute hexidecimal loop offset addresses. Note: never had to do that in the real world.
We did have a cool course in logic - Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science - proof by induction, etc. Again, never used in real life. Guess it is one of those rights-of-passage things.
I understand what you are saying and think there are different perceptions about the terms. I too majored in CS but consider myself a software engineer. We started with 300, only 26 graduated (1990); 26 hours of math required.
Perceptions (right or wrong):
Software Engineer: plans, manages, and develops full end-to-end software work products. They work in industry where the phrase return-on-investment (ROI) is used daily, their organizations often answer to stock holders, and their reputation hinges on each successful effort.
Computer Scientist: conducts research, often in government / educational / research facilities where the terms Grant and Research Funding are more often used and they can often obtain tenure (a secure position).
Being a software engineer is the best job I've ever had. Unfortunately, if you are good at it many companies will promote you into a management / marketing / political position where you lose your cutting-edge technical skills within 5 years.
Then if the company is bought out (happened to me) or goes dot-com-bust (also happened to me) the mid-level manager could find himself out of work without a great skillset.
I wouldn't manage unless I were running the show- great skills = pretty good job security. Now on to the math:
Here's a little math that went into a stored procedure I wrote a month ago:
, thisDistance =
CASE
WHEN (SIN(@Lat1Rads) * SIN((Latitude/@RadConverter))) + (COS(@Lat1Rads) * COS(Latitude/@RadConverter) * COS(@Long1Rads - (Longitude/@RadConverter))) > 1 THEN @DistanceFactor * ACOS(1)
ELSE @DistanceFactor * ACOS((SIN(@Lat1Rads) * SIN((Latitude/@RadConverter))) + (COS(@Lat1Rads) * COS((Latitude/@RadConverter)) * COS(@Long1Rads - (Longitude/@RadConverter))))
END
Customers care about results. If they guy of the boat can't speak english, can't interpret requirements, and doesn't know the clients business it won't matter that he works for $2 per hour.
Is an average where they take the large count of really slow to move large company salaries and lump them in with the small count of little companies now kicking their ass in the marketplace and divide by the totals?
Some of the up and comming little guys are doing well whilst the larger, slow moving guys are revamping mission statements:-)
It is the responsibility of the tech worker to keep his skill set up. Technology itself is not going to disappear tomorrow. There will always be opportunities to provide this service if one has a current skill set.
As an American company, we work with Indian companies all the time. Although they can often compete on cost they do have issues:
a) They are thousands of miles away.
b) Most of them are asleep when we are awake (turn around time).
c) Requirements can get lost in translation- even English to English.
We like the quality of work product we receive, but there will always be more work to do.
Further, do not believe the media hype OR anti-hype about the economy. The job of the media is to keep YOU tuned in. Happy news is fine but most people tune in for the fear factor. That's why 90 percent of the news is negative. So do not buy into it. Just keep your skill set up and be open to the idea of new job opportunities.
The question is: do you want to go for the gusto or spend your time creating the TPS reports?
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So improper abuse is when you skim data off Facebook and market to those people elsewhere. Proper abuse is when you do a Google search on a product and two minutes later it's in your Facebook feed. Got it-
That slew of crap IS the pristine state that the manufacturer tested. Then the user gets a hold of it and messes things up. Then all bets are off.
FTA: Typically, the glitches are due to conflicts with software, such as drivers, system files, or applications already resident on the user's PC. The machines arrive in a pristine state. Users then add, sometimes compliant sometimes non-compliant software, hardware, and modify the registry. There should be no surprise that issues will arise. There are less-popular operating systems with upgrade / driver issues way worse than this.
That 13 year old is gonna own ya because he has become exhalted with the Scryers, has a sweet Tier 5 armor set, and spends all day dueling his homies because he doesn't have a job and can play WOW 13 hours a day. It's not the computer harware.
Dude, this is exactly how they almost took over the Enterprise that one time when Wesely came home from the Academy on vacation. I wouldn't trust it.
This reads as if it were an attempt by a person working a maters's thesis to determine if a pro-linux, pro-privacy crowd would stick with their principles or instead defer to the humanity of helping a family get over a tagedy. Facinating...
After so many years of having your stupid management decisions crap-o-meter go off you eventually reach your limit. What you are going through is normal. Over the last 17 years in software development I've seen technology change and survived many re-organizations in various companies. I started out as a permanent employee (5 years) also became disillusioned, became a consultant and ran a small "C" corp for 8 years, got married, had kids, am currently a perm employee again-- but am still living the dream of creating a killer web services app. Management becomes more about politics and negotiating to get the right tools in place to do the job right. I've lived through several re-orgs where layers of management were wiped out. In many of these cases there were managers that no longer had technical skills who had a hard time finding new management positions because their companies fell behind technology-wise and they did not themselves keep up. But there is risk associated with everything- it just comes down to how good you are at mitigating it by developing good working relationships and keeping up in your field or learning new things. Being en entrepreneur can be an exciting adventure. Doing it on the hardware side might be difficult with the start up costs, however, if you are interested in automation or robotics you might be able to find a market gap as the field is just getting going. Just as big auto and big manufacturing have automated, small and middle manufacturing are ripe for automation. In my case I chose web service applications because software is what I know. Two critical points if you are interested: 1. Read books on entrepreneurship. Not the franchise magazines so much as ones like Think And Grow Rich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_and_Grow_Rich and The Start Up Entrepreneur http://www.amazon.com/Start-up-Entrepreneur-Succeed-Building-Company/dp/0452278007 These books teach about becoming motivated, learning how to see market gaps (opportunities), and overcomming obstacles put in front of you. 2. Avoid naysayers and idiots who tell you something cannot be done. When someone offers you free negative advice quietly ask yourself one queston: What has this person done in this field that gives their opinion credibility. Having family responsibliities may force you to be more careful on how you approach undertaking a new business but there is a plus side to not being too much of a Cowboy as well. Good luck in whatever you choose to do.
My avatar is a Troll Hunter. You got a problem with that?
So next time they'll get the correct warrant-- and STILL toss her butt in jail. I can live with that. As a creepy aside, I believe I went to high school with this chick.
Not all people behave in an equally civil manner. Short of putting up 50 ft. walls around thugly areas such as South Central, L.A., Detroit, and N.E. Philly this is the next best thing. It's the data handling rules that matter, not the data itself.
If you are providing digital/downloadable items, do not have that kind of "sales" income. We are now a digital wharehouse that "rents" space on our hard drive to hold your digital information. It's rental income, at a much lower tax rate, with no sales tax at all.
Wow, it's very difficult to not compare the bad idea of going to Wiki for some kinds of unbiased information to coming to some very biased anti-microsoft tech news sites for microsoft news. So I won't avoid making the comparison.
For the 1,000,000th time we get what you are selling: Linux: good Windows: bad Microsoft: evil This is a typical red meat article for the peasant rabble on a Friday. :)
There are many of us here who love Microsoft. We just get drowned out by all the one's who do not.
Just because Microsoft is involved doesn't make this a "scheme" - as if they are up to something evil.
So Microsoft makes profit, so what. The company that made the components inside the computer you are using made a profit. This morning you got up and ate breakfast - the company that sold the food made a profit. And sometime today you will go potty. The company that made the toilet paper also made a profit.
Unlike the food and toilet paper, you DON'T have to buy the Microsoft software. So, the food and TP guys are preying on your need for their product.
I don't hear you slamming them. Why is that?
If they don't encrypt the traffic between users then they will have plausible deniability about participating in e-tapping users for things like homeland security or marketing data mining.
On the other hand, if they encrypt the communications they could be asked to actively provide access to the communications of others- opening them up to lawsuits galore.
Lastly, if the communication between clients were open then logs of them could be processed, useful data harvested, and sold to marketers. But if the data were encrypted then the marketees would have a pretty good idea where their data was compromised.
It's not personal, just business.
If Ballmer and Microsoft had been wildly successful over the past few years most everyone here would be crying for the Microsoft juggernaut to be sunk or TOTALLY disbanded via political / legal means.
But many say they haven't been wildly successful over the past few years.
Either way the result is the same: people who don't like Microsoft are going to take pot-shots at them.
Made ya think!
Wow, where to start with this one.
Every so often we see a story like this seemingly designed to cast global fear and instill guilt in anyone willing to read it.
1.
2. We also often see stories on how the population of richer nations eats too many carbs. If it is true that the cereal crops will decline then it could also be true that the increased temperature would result in longer growing seasons and could be more favorable to the growing of fruits and vegetables. Good for everyone.
3. The U.S. refuses to cut emissions? How about our buddies in Brazil, India, and China who also refused to destroy their economies by signing the Kyoto treaty? Why attempt to heap all the guilt on us?
4. Four hundred million people at risk of hunger? How much of a risk? Are these people living in places such as those African nations where slaughter of their own population is commonplace and also unchecked by the so-called caring World Of Nations?
This newest attempt to fear the U.S. into destroying it's economy will fail. Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up.
Yes 300 down to 26. There were two courses that triggered this:
1. Calculus II (integration) - people didn't know their algebra and it is a required course. This caused a lot fo them to shift from Computer Science to Information Systems (less math requried).
2. Assembly language - people didn't want to learn how to go from assembly code to object code and compute hexidecimal loop offset addresses. Note: never had to do that in the real world.
We did have a cool course in logic - Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science - proof by induction, etc. Again, never used in real life. Guess it is one of those rights-of-passage things.
If they don't update their products people will comment on how much they suck.
If they do update them people will claim instability due to the number of patches.
It's a matter of perception. Some people see ongoing updates as true support. Others simply hate anything Microsoft.
You decide.
I understand what you are saying and think there are different perceptions about the terms. I too majored in CS but consider myself a software engineer. We started with 300, only 26 graduated (1990); 26 hours of math required.
Perceptions (right or wrong):
Software Engineer: plans, manages, and develops full end-to-end software work products. They work in industry where the phrase return-on-investment (ROI) is used daily, their organizations often answer to stock holders, and their reputation hinges on each successful effort.
Computer Scientist: conducts research, often in government / educational / research facilities where the terms Grant and Research Funding are more often used and they can often obtain tenure (a secure position).
Being a software engineer is the best job I've ever had. Unfortunately, if you are good at it many companies will promote you into a management / marketing / political position where you lose your cutting-edge technical skills within 5 years.
Then if the company is bought out (happened to me) or goes dot-com-bust (also happened to me) the mid-level manager could find himself out of work without a great skillset.
I wouldn't manage unless I were running the show- great skills = pretty good job security. Now on to the math:
Here's a little math that went into a stored procedure I wrote a month ago:
, thisDistance = CASE WHEN (SIN(@Lat1Rads) * SIN((Latitude/@RadConverter))) + (COS(@Lat1Rads) * COS(Latitude/@RadConverter) * COS(@Long1Rads - (Longitude/@RadConverter))) > 1 THEN @DistanceFactor * ACOS(1) ELSE @DistanceFactor * ACOS((SIN(@Lat1Rads) * SIN((Latitude/@RadConverter))) + (COS(@Lat1Rads) * COS((Latitude/@RadConverter)) * COS(@Long1Rads - (Longitude/@RadConverter)))) END
It doesn't happen every day, but it does come up.
Customers care about results. If they guy of the boat can't speak english, can't interpret requirements, and doesn't know the clients business it won't matter that he works for $2 per hour.
Is an average where they take the large count of really slow to move large company salaries and lump them in with the small count of little companies now kicking their ass in the marketplace and divide by the totals?
Some of the up and comming little guys are doing well whilst the larger, slow moving guys are revamping mission statements
woo-hoo! Is America great or what?!
It is the responsibility of the tech worker to keep his skill set up. Technology itself is not going to disappear tomorrow. There will always be opportunities to provide this service if one has a current skill set.
As an American company, we work with Indian companies all the time. Although they can often compete on cost they do have issues:
a) They are thousands of miles away.
b) Most of them are asleep when we are awake (turn around time).
c) Requirements can get lost in translation- even English to English.
We like the quality of work product we receive, but there will always be more work to do.
Further, do not believe the media hype OR anti-hype about the economy. The job of the media is to keep YOU tuned in. Happy news is fine but most people tune in for the fear factor. That's why 90 percent of the news is negative. So do not buy into it. Just keep your skill set up and be open to the idea of new job opportunities.
The question is: do you want to go for the gusto or spend your time creating the TPS reports?
- a little cult movie lingo there