Wow. In a completely unrelated note, I just read yesterday in, I think, a wiki on pokemon, that the original backstory points out that in the pokemon world there are no conventional farm animals. Zero. So what do the human inhabitants eat? Apparently, they eat Pokemon. Hopefully, the more appetizing-looking ones. Let's see what PETA does with that.
But more on-topic, I think I shall create an anti-anti-pokemon game, where you beat up children, take their pokemon, release same into the wild, and see how long it takes for them to starve to death.
And then the anti-anti-anti-pokemon game would have some organization exterminate all domestic pokemon "for their own good".
First of all, I'm a mite suspicious that this article is a plant. If being behind on.net was a career killer, we'd have folks jumping off their squat, ugly tilt-ups right and left. It'd be like 1929, with geeks.
At 40 the sky's the limit. At 40 I moved to a different state, got a job in a different field (shifting from tech to marketing) got married and had a kid. At 45 I changed careers again, (tech management) and again at 53 (business intelligence). Age is a number. It's will, focus, and energy that's important. You can always retrain, regroup, and succeed, if you have the will. Reading your article, I suspect you're having fun with us, but if you actually feel that way, and don't just need minor assurance, you've already lost.
Short answer: You can hone your skills or retrain at any age. If you think you can't, that'll be true also. It's up to you.
My understanding is that the purpose of a terrorist explosive device is to create as much graphic damage as possible. If they've got as far as a crowded terminal, isn't it already too late?
> oh, and a bunch of "we always did it this way" guys would get fired and fade out of the picture.
That's what Microsoft needs to be relevant again, but I really don't see it happening. There'd have to be a significant shake-up in upper management to make it happen. And the problem there is, the people doing the shaking are the people who need to be shook.
Between us, I suspect that whatever Apple chooses to do will wipe the floor with whatever Windows 8 ends up being, but I have a hard time making myself care either way.
If drug companies and tobacco companies must share their raw research and correspondence (as they should), then everyone has to. Making it legal to hide raw data and correspondence from the public might be possible, but limiting it only to the kind of research you like would be problematic.
I think the last thing we need is a special kind of secret achievable by putting a label of "science" on something.
> I think the idea is that bits are bits, and the voice should all be VOIP over your data connection, and you're charged just for the data which includes the voice.
I didn't get that from the article, but ok. I'm sure that voice is VOIP after it hits the cell tower, but unless phones are redesigned, it's not that kind of data from the phone. On the other hand, it's been decades since I did communication engineering; it might be different now.
> I've long been thinking that content and delivery need to be separated in the Cable TV industry, and voice and data should be consolidated under the Cellular system as well as POTS.
I think the problem with consolidation is that it misses so many revenue opportunities. Take texting, for instance. Essentially free for the cellular providers, but the singular most expensive transportation method (per character) on earth.
ok, so... I've always wondered this. In this socialistic society you envision, where is the motivation to create new ideas or build better products? Because the government tells us to?
Whether the story is true or an attention grab, what occurs to me is that the end is unusual and in some ways unrealistic. It depends on the troll having some decency in them that they had not managed to suppress by their hatred or disdain of their quarry.
Yes, it is possible to track down an harasser. I've done it. (It was a team effort, and the guy eventually lost his job and will probably never work in that field again.) It needs to be someone who can manipulate the tools without knowing how they operate, and without the knowledge and experience to adequately cover their tracks. Lots of people are full of venom but not intelligence.
The thing is, just telling them what kind of person you are and how badly they hurt you is, if anything, added motive to (in my opinion) the great majority of scum out there. They don't care who you are, and the fact that they've caused you pain is invigorating. Making the world crash down on them is in most cases the only solution.
In this particular case (again, if true and not just a marketing effort), given that the troll was the son of a friend, confronting the kid with parents present is a necessary first step, but I'd be surprised as hell if it worked. Real life is seldom so accommodating.
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I'm not sure I'd want to be anywhere near a four foot ...er... amorous racoon...
Wow. In a completely unrelated note, I just read yesterday in, I think, a wiki on pokemon, that the original backstory points out that in the pokemon world there are no conventional farm animals. Zero. So what do the human inhabitants eat? Apparently, they eat Pokemon. Hopefully, the more appetizing-looking ones. Let's see what PETA does with that.
But more on-topic, I think I shall create an anti-anti-pokemon game, where you beat up children, take their pokemon, release same into the wild, and see how long it takes for them to starve to death.
And then the anti-anti-anti-pokemon game would have some organization exterminate all domestic pokemon "for their own good".
First of all, I'm a mite suspicious that this article is a plant. If being behind on .net was a career killer, we'd have folks jumping off their squat, ugly tilt-ups right and left. It'd be like 1929, with geeks.
At 40 the sky's the limit. At 40 I moved to a different state, got a job in a different field (shifting from tech to marketing) got married and had a kid. At 45 I changed careers again, (tech management) and again at 53 (business intelligence). Age is a number. It's will, focus, and energy that's important. You can always retrain, regroup, and succeed, if you have the will. Reading your article, I suspect you're having fun with us, but if you actually feel that way, and don't just need minor assurance, you've already lost.
Short answer: You can hone your skills or retrain at any age. If you think you can't, that'll be true also. It's up to you.
My understanding is that the purpose of a terrorist explosive device is to create as much graphic damage as possible. If they've got as far as a crowded terminal, isn't it already too late?
HP should outsource all their IT to HP India. It worked so well for the rest of us.
It'd be interesting to see how long it'd take them to go out of business.
> oh, and a bunch of "we always did it this way" guys would get fired and fade out of the picture.
That's what Microsoft needs to be relevant again, but I really don't see it happening. There'd have to be a significant shake-up in upper management to make it happen. And the problem there is, the people doing the shaking are the people who need to be shook.
Between us, I suspect that whatever Apple chooses to do will wipe the floor with whatever Windows 8 ends up being, but I have a hard time making myself care either way.
Ah. That deserves a score of "interesting".
Sorry, I guess I was being too succinct. I meant, share in court, on topic with TFA.
this is a bad idea.
I'm not an accountant, but don't you have to keep correspondence longer than 90 days for Sarbox requirements?
If drug companies and tobacco companies must share their raw research and correspondence (as they should), then everyone has to. Making it legal to hide raw data and correspondence from the public might be possible, but limiting it only to the kind of research you like would be problematic.
I think the last thing we need is a special kind of secret achievable by putting a label of "science" on something.
I'm trying desperately to forget that movie ever existed.
Don't drive and type. Hand the phone to Bruce.
> I think the idea is that bits are bits, and the voice should all be VOIP over your data connection, and you're charged just for the data which includes the voice.
I didn't get that from the article, but ok. I'm sure that voice is VOIP after it hits the cell tower, but unless phones are redesigned, it's not that kind of data from the phone. On the other hand, it's been decades since I did communication engineering; it might be different now.
> I've long been thinking that content and delivery need to be separated in the Cable TV industry, and voice and data should be consolidated under the Cellular system as well as POTS.
I think the problem with consolidation is that it misses so many revenue opportunities. Take texting, for instance. Essentially free for the cellular providers, but the singular most expensive transportation method (per character) on earth.
ok, so... I've always wondered this. In this socialistic society you envision, where is the motivation to create new ideas or build better products? Because the government tells us to?
Mod insightful.
Or, new technologies could only be introduced by the owners of the old technology. When they feel like it.
Whether the story is true or an attention grab, what occurs to me is that the end is unusual and in some ways unrealistic. It depends on the troll having some decency in them that they had not managed to suppress by their hatred or disdain of their quarry.
Yes, it is possible to track down an harasser. I've done it. (It was a team effort, and the guy eventually lost his job and will probably never work in that field again.) It needs to be someone who can manipulate the tools without knowing how they operate, and without the knowledge and experience to adequately cover their tracks. Lots of people are full of venom but not intelligence.
The thing is, just telling them what kind of person you are and how badly they hurt you is, if anything, added motive to (in my opinion) the great majority of scum out there. They don't care who you are, and the fact that they've caused you pain is invigorating. Making the world crash down on them is in most cases the only solution.
In this particular case (again, if true and not just a marketing effort), given that the troll was the son of a friend, confronting the kid with parents present is a necessary first step, but I'd be surprised as hell if it worked. Real life is seldom so accommodating.
"For an increased cost of roughly .05%, the pilot gets to breathe. Seems like money well spent."
Until you realize we have these nifty new auto-pilots that don't need to breath...
I'd argue that they're not *that* nifty, yet.
"I'm getting better!"
"No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment."