We'd be up in arms if it was the FBI breaking into the systems to gather evidence of illegal activity with out a writ or warrant. Without the backing of the law the 'hacker' is and should be guilty of digital crimes, but that doesn't abrogate the guilt of the spammer, who should be relegated to a special hell for spammers and phishers. Private entities can get away with things law enforcement can't.
There are ways to kill bad ideas, but it just is no longer socially acceptable to kill the originator in a novel and particularly gruesome manner. My favorite was always hanging, drawing and quartering.
So, if or when the writers go on strike this content might have some actual value, and even then it is debatable. Otherwise this is just a wannabe looking for attention, or maybe even an inside job trying to stir up some publicity for crappy programming.
It is hard to be loyal to a brand that is gone. Our schools had one apple II in the library, and a lab full of Commodore machines. I had a trs-80 color computer, and a Sinclair zx-81 at home. I don't and won't use a apple anything, and the others are all gone. It is pretty much an intel with whatever flavor of Linux serves the purpose and my windows 10 laptop for work. They all do the tasks they are designed for.
DO NOT let them bully you into working NO MATTER how critical they make it seem. You and your wife deserve the honeymoon and you will NEVER EVER get the newly wed feeling back again. You can tell your self you'll take a honeymoon later and you may well do it but it won't be the same. That 'new car smell' forgive my crude analogy will wear off soon enough. Take her some place special and quiet, just the 2 of you and enjoy newly married life and each other...Thus speaks the voice of experience. A previously married guy, now divorced. My GF and I make sure to get away on a quarterly basis for a little bit of time, even if it is just a long weekend. I won't make the same mistakes twice...
LOL you sound like you work at the same place I do. Most currently the excuse for the open office layout I work in is security. The idea is no one will do anything risky if someone is always looking at you. Luckily the environment needed for the equipment is not conducive to human habitation so I spend most of my time in a microfiber pullover under the tiles in the lab rather than at my desk, only the parts ordering and weekly reporting draws me to my workstation.
Swarms of self driving car orbiting the city. Call and get one to take you to the store or the train station or the restaurant, wherever you need to go, release it to join the swarm/flock/herd and do your thing, calling for another just few minutes before you need to go. Automated monitoring could have enough cars at the train depots to take the occupants to their final destinations, and if done right a transfer from the train could cover the final mile cost just like a single bus bas does multiple transfers or a rail pass handles all the switches you need.
4 year college degree, and 5 years experience in a technology that has only existed for 14 months and cannot be taught in a classroom outside of business anyways. The requirements are way past ridiculous and border on the insane. To top it all off the person doing the hiring hasn't a clue about the actual technical requirements needed to perform the job. They want their cake and want it for free, they want to tell you what to do, how to do it and pay you next to nothing all the while not having a clue what they REALLY want, how to do it, or the resources needed to do it with. Just another day in the life of an IT professional...
I regularly lift up to 75 lbs. I used to smoke and gave it up, and the hourly breaks that I was getting via being a smoker. I still manage breaks on a similar scale under the guise of studying 'hardware' layout diagrams and network maps, or bathroom breaks and a quick trip to the coffee house in the lobby.
I was replying to an AC that referred to the language as COBAL, hence the intended misspelling.
I worked for a large financial corporation starting with peripheral operations on punch card readers, and microfiche printers long ago. I've worked with removable platter DASD, on DEC PDP-11/70's through Tandem Himalaya machines, then into Unix and Solaris on SUN and Cray hardware. It sounds like we have similar backgrounds. I did mention that there was huge price to just get into the game at the mainframe level though. I've had to debug more hex dumps in old JES environments than I care to remember
They are learning COBAL. The problem is the language is COBOL. Programmers should learn Hexadecimal and Binary (machine level code) and then go into application layer programming from there, but that is neither cool or trendy. AFAIK there are still no viruses on MVS & VM systems. TPF and CICS still function wonderfully there is just a huge price to get into the game with a mainframe system vs. PC/minicomputers.
Was thinking more like Hot Topic or Old Navy but the Gap works as well. I've not used apple hardware since high school, when as the designated AV Geek I set up an Apple II in the library and reassured the librarian that the sounds coming out of the disk drive were normal. The rest of the computer lab was using Commodore 64's. I had a TRS-80 color at home, and my dad had a CPM machine from work that we played Zork on. I won't play in Apples walled garden so any music or 'pop culture' will be a mystery to me. Slackware, RH, Solaris, Windows, OS2, MVS, VM, DOS/VSE, I've played with and supported them all without needing or wanting to take a bite of the poison apple.
I wonder if this will apply to DVD's and region restrictions on movie releases ? What about book prices between the US and Canada/Australia ? I realize none of those are EU entities but it would be really cool to some sort of precedent set.
Why don't the local ISP's host game servers ? Things like that can really make a service stand out and playing against local competition at low ping is always more fun. I remember when DSL first became a thing and some friends of mine in Washington state had a T1 and I finally got a decent connection via a close DSL line vs my 56k modem. Life was good then:) Now a low latency cable connection is the standard and things are even for most of us.
I never implied the subject wasn't newsworthy, or even boring, merely that varied pricing and merchants trying to milk the highest sale price was an age old practice that is common in much of the world. In fact only fairly recently has standardized pricing become a 'thing'. Prior to that barter and negotiation was much more common. Maybe I am just more used to going to a market and haggling with the merchant for my bread and meats, dickering over the value of the service I supply in return for the goods I am purchasing. How much of my labor is a chicken worth ?
Much of the world still considers haggling over price a shopping standard. From open air butchers auctioning off product, to roadside vendors dickering over price. If you pay asking price you are very likely over-paying.
The Fsck'n companies can't even expand manage and compete in their terrestrial areas, there is no way they should be allowed access to orbit. The lag associated with satellite internet access is awful. Why should we let them have access and compete with Hughes net when they won't compete with their land bound opposition. Screw AT&T, Spectrum, Rogers, and Shaw.
Nah I lucked into a wonderful women who had a great kid by a deadbeat loser Dad. I really enjoy having the kid around and I did not have to go through the terrible 2's with him. He's old enough that he appreciates me, and I can like him as a person. The best part is his mother likes Hockey and drinks beer as well. I met her at a Sharks game, we both have season tickets...
I would think the next step is to voice print yourself and train google/alexa to respond to only a specific voice or group of voices. It would seem to make sense to change the name google/alexa responded to, to something personalized as well, say Oscar, like the system developed by a character in the following books...
It is more an issue of dead pixels than of potential scratches or such in the future. I doubt that I would use the device as a portable much anyways, I was mainly looking to play the new Zelda game and would very likely use it most of the time hooked to my big screen. I do very little portable gaming even on my laptop. But I do enjoy a good session of FPS shooter, and I love old school RPG's, almost as much as I like table top pen and paper role playing. The GF's kid and I have a blast teaming up in Battlefield as pilot and gunner, he's a really good pilot and it is not unheard of us to go an entire game in one vehicle. I will probably still get one but more toward the end of the year for a Christmas present or for a birthday gift for him in November.
I was going to buy one but after the bad press about screen quality I asked the store to allow me to see the screen before I purchased it and they (Best Buy) refused to allow me to open one prior to purchase, so I deferred. Not that it hurt their sales at all, some lady took the one I had from my hands and bought it.
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We'd be up in arms if it was the FBI breaking into the systems to gather evidence of illegal activity with out a writ or warrant. Without the backing of the law the 'hacker' is and should be guilty of digital crimes, but that doesn't abrogate the guilt of the spammer, who should be relegated to a special hell for spammers and phishers. Private entities can get away with things law enforcement can't.
There are ways to kill bad ideas, but it just is no longer socially acceptable to kill the originator in a novel and particularly gruesome manner. My favorite was always hanging, drawing and quartering.
So, if or when the writers go on strike this content might have some actual value, and even then it is debatable. Otherwise this is just a wannabe looking for attention, or maybe even an inside job trying to stir up some publicity for crappy programming.
It is hard to be loyal to a brand that is gone. Our schools had one apple II in the library, and a lab full of Commodore machines. I had a trs-80 color computer, and a Sinclair zx-81 at home. I don't and won't use a apple anything, and the others are all gone. It is pretty much an intel with whatever flavor of Linux serves the purpose and my windows 10 laptop for work. They all do the tasks they are designed for.
DO NOT let them bully you into working NO MATTER how critical they make it seem. You and your wife deserve the honeymoon and you will NEVER EVER get the newly wed feeling back again. You can tell your self you'll take a honeymoon later and you may well do it but it won't be the same. That 'new car smell' forgive my crude analogy will wear off soon enough. Take her some place special and quiet, just the 2 of you and enjoy newly married life and each other...Thus speaks the voice of experience. A previously married guy, now divorced. My GF and I make sure to get away on a quarterly basis for a little bit of time, even if it is just a long weekend. I won't make the same mistakes twice...
LOL you sound like you work at the same place I do. Most currently the excuse for the open office layout I work in is security. The idea is no one will do anything risky if someone is always looking at you. Luckily the environment needed for the equipment is not conducive to human habitation so I spend most of my time in a microfiber pullover under the tiles in the lab rather than at my desk, only the parts ordering and weekly reporting draws me to my workstation.
Swarms of self driving car orbiting the city. Call and get one to take you to the store or the train station or the restaurant, wherever you need to go, release it to join the swarm/flock/herd and do your thing, calling for another just few minutes before you need to go. Automated monitoring could have enough cars at the train depots to take the occupants to their final destinations, and if done right a transfer from the train could cover the final mile cost just like a single bus bas does multiple transfers or a rail pass handles all the switches you need.
4 year college degree, and 5 years experience in a technology that has only existed for 14 months and cannot be taught in a classroom outside of business anyways. The requirements are way past ridiculous and border on the insane. To top it all off the person doing the hiring hasn't a clue about the actual technical requirements needed to perform the job. They want their cake and want it for free, they want to tell you what to do, how to do it and pay you next to nothing all the while not having a clue what they REALLY want, how to do it, or the resources needed to do it with. Just another day in the life of an IT professional...
I regularly lift up to 75 lbs. I used to smoke and gave it up, and the hourly breaks that I was getting via being a smoker. I still manage breaks on a similar scale under the guise of studying 'hardware' layout diagrams and network maps, or bathroom breaks and a quick trip to the coffee house in the lobby.
I was replying to an AC that referred to the language as COBAL, hence the intended misspelling.
I worked for a large financial corporation starting with peripheral operations on punch card readers, and microfiche printers long ago. I've worked with removable platter DASD, on DEC PDP-11/70's through Tandem Himalaya machines, then into Unix and Solaris on SUN and Cray hardware. It sounds like we have similar backgrounds. I did mention that there was huge price to just get into the game at the mainframe level though. I've had to debug more hex dumps in old JES environments than I care to remember
They are learning COBAL. The problem is the language is COBOL. Programmers should learn Hexadecimal and Binary (machine level code) and then go into application layer programming from there, but that is neither cool or trendy.
AFAIK there are still no viruses on MVS & VM systems. TPF and CICS still function wonderfully there is just a huge price to get into the game with a mainframe system vs. PC/minicomputers.
Was thinking more like Hot Topic or Old Navy but the Gap works as well. I've not used apple hardware since high school, when as the designated AV Geek I set up an Apple II in the library and reassured the librarian that the sounds coming out of the disk drive were normal. The rest of the computer lab was using Commodore 64's. I had a TRS-80 color at home, and my dad had a CPM machine from work that we played Zork on. I won't play in Apples walled garden so any music or 'pop culture' will be a mystery to me. Slackware, RH, Solaris, Windows, OS2, MVS, VM, DOS/VSE, I've played with and supported them all without needing or wanting to take a bite of the poison apple.
I wonder if this will apply to DVD's and region restrictions on movie releases ? What about book prices between the US and Canada/Australia ? I realize none of those are EU entities but it would be really cool to some sort of precedent set.
I'd guess they don't have sanitation engineers in Oregon ? or software engineers ? Do they register train engineers the same as structural engineers ?
https://www.verizon.com/about/...
Why don't the local ISP's host game servers ? :) Now a low latency cable connection is the standard and things are even for most of us.
Things like that can really make a service stand out and playing against local competition at low ping is always more fun. I remember when DSL first became a thing and some friends of mine in Washington state had a T1 and I finally got a decent connection via a close DSL line vs my 56k modem. Life was good then
I never implied the subject wasn't newsworthy, or even boring, merely that varied pricing and merchants trying to milk the highest sale price was an age old practice that is common in much of the world. In fact only fairly recently has standardized pricing become a 'thing'. Prior to that barter and negotiation was much more common. Maybe I am just more used to going to a market and haggling with the merchant for my bread and meats, dickering over the value of the service I supply in return for the goods I am purchasing. How much of my labor is a chicken worth ?
Much of the world still considers haggling over price a shopping standard. From open air butchers auctioning off product, to roadside vendors dickering over price. If you pay asking price you are very likely over-paying.
Now to just teach the average FB user to use their brain...
The Fsck'n companies can't even expand manage and compete in their terrestrial areas, there is no way they should be allowed access to orbit. The lag associated with satellite internet access is awful. Why should we let them have access and compete with Hughes net when they won't compete with their land bound opposition. Screw AT&T, Spectrum, Rogers, and Shaw.
Raspberry Pi cases, just off the top of google...
https://www.google.com/#q=rasp...
at 73 he probably equates the internet thing with the telegraph.
Nah I lucked into a wonderful women who had a great kid by a deadbeat loser Dad. I really enjoy having the kid around and I did not have to go through the terrible 2's with him. He's old enough that he appreciates me, and I can like him as a person. The best part is his mother likes Hockey and drinks beer as well. I met her at a Sharks game, we both have season tickets...
I would think the next step is to voice print yourself and train google/alexa to respond to only a specific voice or group of voices. It would seem to make sense to change the name google/alexa responded to, to something personalized as well, say Oscar, like the system developed by a character in the following books...
http://www.goodreads.com/serie...
It is more an issue of dead pixels than of potential scratches or such in the future. I doubt that I would use the device as a portable much anyways, I was mainly looking to play the new Zelda game and would very likely use it most of the time hooked to my big screen. I do very little portable gaming even on my laptop. But I do enjoy a good session of FPS shooter, and I love old school RPG's, almost as much as I like table top pen and paper role playing. The GF's kid and I have a blast teaming up in Battlefield as pilot and gunner, he's a really good pilot and it is not unheard of us to go an entire game in one vehicle. I will probably still get one but more toward the end of the year for a Christmas present or for a birthday gift for him in November.
http://www.pcmag.com/news/3522...
I was going to buy one but after the bad press about screen quality I asked the store to allow me to see the screen before I purchased it and they (Best Buy) refused to allow me to open one prior to purchase, so I deferred. Not that it hurt their sales at all, some lady took the one I had from my hands and bought it.