I agree 100%. But only to a cost effective level. For example, if you have a thousand hard drives, it's probably worth your effort to track outage reasons. If you have five, not so much.
CS in college (when I went 80s- early 90s night school) taught us nothing about configuration management. It taught us nothing about requirements. It taught us nothing about architecture. It taught us nothing about design. It taught us nothing about integration, and extremely little about testing.
For me, all of that came from working at a F500 company via OJT.
I'm Gen X. Thanks to all the millennial beta-males and homosexuals, there's lots of unemployed women will to work and serve alpha types such as myself.
Now go bring me coffee.
It's hard work getting the lazy to do their job. Sheesh!
There's certainly a whole lot more to choosing a company than $3k in salary difference. - Are you going to be able to work on cool stuff and grow in your abilities/marketability? - Is the management cool - #1 reason people hate their jobs is because they work for dicks - Do they have flexible hours, can you work from home, etc? - Is your commute gonna suck at one, more than the other? - What does the 401k matching look like? - etc., etc.
These aren't "nice to have", they're essential to your quality of life.
Heat, static, condensation, unstable power, radiation, magnetic fields, vibration...pick your poison. It all depends on the environment you're working in and how well the equipment was designed.
Then you also know that if you've been seeing an unusual trend in some items breaking, it's probably cost effective for you to look for a root cause, and fix the problem, or find a suitable substitute to break the cycle. This is why we keep metrics on outages. It's not so much your job as the "IT guy", but whoever is managing the program/IT should be interested because it's costing them money.
From the linked article... "One of China's elite prisons has become overcrowded with political prisoners..."
From https://freedomhouse.org/blog/... If there is one thing that the Chinese government would most like us to overlook, however, it is the ferocious suppression of political dissent.
So, how do you then avoid judges making decisions in favor of people/companies who they'll be working for when their time is up? Term limits doesn't only get rid of the less qualified, it gets rid of the top qualified. I'm all for term limits in Congress and Executive office. Not so much for SCOTUS.
My point is that even though I'm a conservative, I dislike him as well. That doesn't disqualify him. The elected president chose him and the Senate confirmed him. I wish our elected officials would stop trying to push the courts into following their ideologies and simply put forth the best legal scholars, but we don't live in Utopia, so here we are. There are a couple other justices that I don't think are the best (on both sides of the spectrum) as well, it doesn't mean their disqualified.
And those are only the fed. There has been a long list of governors, and mayors who are or have done time.
Here are some CEOs for you. I won't bother you with the Martha Stewarts of the world. Jeff Skilling, former CEO of Enron Serving 24 years for fraud, insider trading, and other crimes related to the collapse of Enron Bernie Ebbers, former CEO of WorldCom Serving 25 years for accounting fraud that cost investors over $100 billion Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco Serving 8 to 25 years for stealing $134 million from Tyco John Rigas, former CEO of Adelphia Communications Serving 25 years for bank, wire, and securities fraud related to the demise of Adelphia Sanjay Kumar, former CEO of Computer Associates Serving 12 years for obstruction of justice and securities fraud Walter Forbes, former CEO of Cendant Serving 12 years for fraud Richard Scrushy, former CEO of HealthSouth Serving 7 years for bribery and mail fraud Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest Communications Serving 6 years for insider trading Sam Waksal, former CEO of ImClone Served 7 years for securities fraud (released last year) Martin Grass, former CEO of Rite Aid Served 6 years for fraud and obstruction (just released this year)
"...U.S. law is not enforceable on Chinese companies (despite the theories of the tinfoil-hat crowd). "
Huawei has a U.S. address. They do business in the U.S. Their money flows through U.S. banks. If you think the U.S. has no way to enforce penalties against them, you're delusional.
As an old white guy, American who's travelled and lived overseas extensively (see earlier post), I'd like to suggest that you're full of shit. Don't get me wrong, I love it here, but there are plenty of things in other countries that are better than what we have. Have a nice day.
Yup, it was all good until I got married (the first time), and then the kid came, and suddenly I went from having a small one bedroom apartment's worth of stuff to having three, and then a small house, and then a much bigger house when I remarried. I plan on moving two more times...one when I retire...two when I can't live without constant care...oh, and three when they toss my ashes.
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I agree 100%. But only to a cost effective level. For example, if you have a thousand hard drives, it's probably worth your effort to track outage reasons. If you have five, not so much.
This.
CS in college (when I went 80s- early 90s night school) taught us nothing about configuration management. It taught us nothing about requirements. It taught us nothing about architecture. It taught us nothing about design. It taught us nothing about integration, and extremely little about testing.
For me, all of that came from working at a F500 company via OJT.
I'm Gen X. Thanks to all the millennial beta-males and homosexuals, there's lots of unemployed women will to work and serve alpha types such as myself.
Now go bring me coffee.
It's hard work getting the lazy to do their job. Sheesh!
I'm a Baby Boomer...get the fuck off my lawn.
https://www.indeed.com/salarie...
$70,573, not bad considering the median wage in the US in 2017 was ~$44k
https://www.thebalancecareers....
There's certainly a whole lot more to choosing a company than $3k in salary difference.
- Are you going to be able to work on cool stuff and grow in your abilities/marketability?
- Is the management cool - #1 reason people hate their jobs is because they work for dicks
- Do they have flexible hours, can you work from home, etc?
- Is your commute gonna suck at one, more than the other?
- What does the 401k matching look like?
- etc., etc.
These aren't "nice to have", they're essential to your quality of life.
Answer: Pay off their student loans.
Heat, static, condensation, unstable power, radiation, magnetic fields, vibration...pick your poison. It all depends on the environment you're working in and how well the equipment was designed.
"Static Zap makes Crap" - One of my favorite sayings from Computer Tech training in the USAF back in the 70s.
Then you also know that if you've been seeing an unusual trend in some items breaking, it's probably cost effective for you to look for a root cause, and fix the problem, or find a suitable substitute to break the cycle. This is why we keep metrics on outages. It's not so much your job as the "IT guy", but whoever is managing the program/IT should be interested because it's costing them money.
From the linked article...
"One of China's elite prisons has become overcrowded with political prisoners..."
From https://freedomhouse.org/blog/...
If there is one thing that the Chinese government would most like us to overlook, however, it is the ferocious suppression of political dissent.
Headline speaks for itself
https://www.economist.com/chin...
Do you need more, or are you a Chinese troll?
So, how do you then avoid judges making decisions in favor of people/companies who they'll be working for when their time is up? Term limits doesn't only get rid of the less qualified, it gets rid of the top qualified. I'm all for term limits in Congress and Executive office. Not so much for SCOTUS.
Agreed
My point is that even though I'm a conservative, I dislike him as well. That doesn't disqualify him. The elected president chose him and the Senate confirmed him. I wish our elected officials would stop trying to push the courts into following their ideologies and simply put forth the best legal scholars, but we don't live in Utopia, so here we are. There are a couple other justices that I don't think are the best (on both sides of the spectrum) as well, it doesn't mean their disqualified.
Go ahead and defund the military, and see how much quicker Putin or Xi are at rolling over your nation than climate change is.
Google is your friend...please use it.
https://www.businessinsider.co...
Repeating your lie won't make it true...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And those are only the fed. There has been a long list of governors, and mayors who are or have done time.
Here are some CEOs for you. I won't bother you with the Martha Stewarts of the world.
Jeff Skilling, former CEO of Enron
Serving 24 years for fraud, insider trading, and other crimes related to the collapse of Enron
Bernie Ebbers, former CEO of WorldCom
Serving 25 years for accounting fraud that cost investors over $100 billion
Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco Serving 8 to 25 years for stealing $134 million from Tyco
John Rigas, former CEO of Adelphia Communications Serving 25 years for bank, wire, and securities fraud related to the demise of Adelphia
Sanjay Kumar, former CEO of Computer Associates Serving 12 years for obstruction of justice and securities fraud
Walter Forbes, former CEO of Cendant Serving 12 years for fraud
Richard Scrushy, former CEO of HealthSouth Serving 7 years for bribery and mail fraud
Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest Communications
Serving 6 years for insider trading
Sam Waksal, former CEO of ImClone Served 7 years for securities fraud (released last year)
Martin Grass, former CEO of Rite Aid Served 6 years for fraud and obstruction (just released this year)
It's all going to come out in future hearing(s), so that seems pretty unlikely.
"...U.S. law is not enforceable on Chinese companies (despite the theories of the tinfoil-hat crowd). "
Huawei has a U.S. address. They do business in the U.S. Their money flows through U.S. banks. If you think the U.S. has no way to enforce penalties against them, you're delusional.
In other words, you don't like him. Got it.
Because he used a neural network
adjective. having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich
There's a huge difference between affluent and the top 10/20%. I'm in the top ten and nowhere close to affluent. Stop misusing the word.
Great then don't let the door hit ya. Have a nice day.
As an old white guy, American who's travelled and lived overseas extensively (see earlier post), I'd like to suggest that you're full of shit. Don't get me wrong, I love it here, but there are plenty of things in other countries that are better than what we have. Have a nice day.
Yup, it was all good until I got married (the first time), and then the kid came, and suddenly I went from having a small one bedroom apartment's worth of stuff to having three, and then a small house, and then a much bigger house when I remarried. I plan on moving two more times...one when I retire...two when I can't live without constant care...oh, and three when they toss my ashes.
Jeez, it ended in '85. I'd already bought my first home by then. Get off my lawn!