Making it impossible to dual-boot your ARM device. Security for the boot sector is one thing, making it impossible to install another OS by choice is something else.
That's just the number of possible planets in our galaxy. If you take a rough estimate of galaxies we can see as 500 billion, in other words a galaxy for every star in the Milky Way, and those are just the ones we can see.
Okay, 500 billion galaxies, 100 billion exoplanets per galaxy, which is probably conservative. I'm going to go out on a limb and say there's at least one other earth-like planet out there.
If they're going to stop working and drag their feet on getting anything done, they should call it the "Republican option". Nuclear option implies a device that's working.
It's pretty much an uphill slog. What's totally frustrating is then reading about those same companies complaining in the press they can't find qualified applicants and need more H-1B visas.
When I was CIO I never had trouble finding qualified people. I did have trouble finding qualified people willing to work 70 hours a week for $35,000 a year, which is what I think most companies really mean when they say they can't find qualified applicants.
It's not right this is moderated troll. The idea that if the U.S. were less confrontational on the world stage we might be more highly regarded is only controversial among the Fox News crowd.
If Gmail offered it as an option and people on the other end could decode the message without any special skills, I'd use it. The convenience factor is major issue.
If you're a young person, I think the very best thing you could do is get together with a group of friends and commit to a one year experiment in which the substantial part of your life will be focused on discovery and not be dedicated to wage work -- however that looks for you. Get an instrument, learn three chords, and go on tour; find a derelict boat and cross an ocean; hitchhike to Alaska; build a fleet of dirigibles; construct a UAV that will engage with the emerging local police UAVs; whatever -- but make it count.
That's the best advice to young people I've ever heard that didn't come from Hugh Hefner.
Also, along with what you'd pay for in licence fees, you get support from them.
Since when? We paid for user seats on the OS, plus all the software on the machine, plus support and it was damn expensive. Unless your idea of "support" is security patches, then yeah, Windows comes with support.
They're saving a crap load of money. Maybe not the first year or even the second, but by the third year the savings will be significant, by the fourth year they'll be astounding.
Now switching a big office over to another OS should be a lot easier. With most services available online, there's less incentive for individual copies of software on every machine.
As the title said, walking through doorways caused forgetting
I could see how that would be a survival instinct. When you cross a barrier into another space, job one for your brain is taking stock of where you are and processing possible threats. It's not that you forget what you have in your hand, your brain has merely busy with another set of priorities.
When our ancestors moved from the cover of the woods to a grassy meadow, when they entered a cave, or rounded the bend of a river they were effectively going through a door to another space. The surviving human brains would have been attuned to both threats and opportunities, which would be a priority processing task kicked off by crossing the barrier threshold.
For reminding me about another great thing about being out of IT. That gut wrenching feeling when you get a call at 5am with someone shrieking the site has been hacked and there's an investor meeting that morning, hair on fire blah, blah, blah. Followed by the subtle insinuations that it was something to do with your code. The developers pointing fingers at the networking people, the networking people acting like the passive-aggressive beat dogs and biting back.
Changing careers was the best move I ever made, next to going independent. What a relief.
I left programming and switched to running my own business as a freelance writer. You couldn't get me back into programming at gunpoint. I make more money, my customers treat me better, the hours are easier, and there's a ton more work.
Programming sucks massive donkey balls as a career, the difference is quite amazing. I can make more on an hourly basis writing than I ever could as programmer, way more. And my break room has a pool, jacuzzi, and a tiki bar with a frozen margarita machine.
One thing programming did teach me was how to type like the wind. I can type rings around other writers. Maybe you could make the case that thinking logically about a program structure made me a better writer.
The interesting question is whether writing is such a great career, or if it just sucks so much less than programming that it feels marvelous by comparison?
...but it's also possible to take the whole interview-testing concept too far.
No kidding. I was a software engineer for almost a decade and got some bizarre interview questions with no connection to any relevant problem I had to solve in nearly 10 years of writing apps. What was bizarre is, most of the time, the problems had no connection to anything the company did, either. Nothing about logistics, data import, connecting to a web service, or setting up batch jobs, none of the skills you need every day.
The worst offenders are the third party testing companies which seem to specialize in obscurity.
I switched to freelance writing. It pays better, it's age proof, there's no commuting, no dipshit third party testing companies to slog through, and I don't work for idiots.
they still rubber-stamped the PATRIOT Act and only made TSA more heinous.
And if they hadn't the Republicans would have been running wall-to-wall commercials about how they were leaving the US vulnerable to attack. Fox News would have made it headline for weeks.
You cause the problems and then blame the other side for the results. That's quite a racket you got there.
Half the people they work for won't appreciate them, the other half will be sitting around thinking of ways to outsource them. You'll be pretty much done with your career by the time you're 45 and get replaced by people who speak English with difficulty on an H1-B visa.
You'll also be scoffed at by younger contemporaries who will suggest that if you had kept your skills current, you'd still have a job. That while listening to employers gripe in the media about not be able to find qualified applicants.
Why are they picking on Google instead of someplace like, for instance, Koch Industries? Or News Corp? Or any of the other big companies pulling the infamous Double Dutch accounting tricks?
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Making it impossible to dual-boot your ARM device. Security for the boot sector is one thing, making it impossible to install another OS by choice is something else.
That's a high five moment for Ballmer right up there with the Zune out-selling one or two unbranded, generic mp3 players.
That's just the number of possible planets in our galaxy. If you take a rough estimate of galaxies we can see as 500 billion, in other words a galaxy for every star in the Milky Way, and those are just the ones we can see.
Okay, 500 billion galaxies, 100 billion exoplanets per galaxy, which is probably conservative. I'm going to go out on a limb and say there's at least one other earth-like planet out there.
I say we snag it, bag it and tag it.
If they're going to stop working and drag their feet on getting anything done, they should call it the "Republican option". Nuclear option implies a device that's working.
It's pretty much an uphill slog. What's totally frustrating is then reading about those same companies complaining in the press they can't find qualified applicants and need more H-1B visas.
When I was CIO I never had trouble finding qualified people. I did have trouble finding qualified people willing to work 70 hours a week for $35,000 a year, which is what I think most companies really mean when they say they can't find qualified applicants.
MAYBE everyone wouldn't hate U.S. so much?
It's not right this is moderated troll. The idea that if the U.S. were less confrontational on the world stage we might be more highly regarded is only controversial among the Fox News crowd.
'Do you encrypt your email? If not, 'Why not?'
If Gmail offered it as an option and people on the other end could decode the message without any special skills, I'd use it. The convenience factor is major issue.
If you're a young person, I think the very best thing you could do is get together with a group of friends and commit to a one year experiment in which the substantial part of your life will be focused on discovery and not be dedicated to wage work -- however that looks for you. Get an instrument, learn three chords, and go on tour; find a derelict boat and cross an ocean; hitchhike to Alaska; build a fleet of dirigibles; construct a UAV that will engage with the emerging local police UAVs; whatever -- but make it count.
That's the best advice to young people I've ever heard that didn't come from Hugh Hefner.
At da Salk Institute for Biological Studies we want to pump....you up!
Also, along with what you'd pay for in licence fees, you get support from them.
Since when? We paid for user seats on the OS, plus all the software on the machine, plus support and it was damn expensive. Unless your idea of "support" is security patches, then yeah, Windows comes with support.
They're saving a crap load of money. Maybe not the first year or even the second, but by the third year the savings will be significant, by the fourth year they'll be astounding.
Now switching a big office over to another OS should be a lot easier. With most services available online, there's less incentive for individual copies of software on every machine.
A lot of people here voted for anti-intellectual Republican candidates and now act surprised they act like Luddites.
As the title said, walking through doorways caused forgetting
I could see how that would be a survival instinct. When you cross a barrier into another space, job one for your brain is taking stock of where you are and processing possible threats. It's not that you forget what you have in your hand, your brain has merely busy with another set of priorities.
When our ancestors moved from the cover of the woods to a grassy meadow, when they entered a cave, or rounded the bend of a river they were effectively going through a door to another space. The surviving human brains would have been attuned to both threats and opportunities, which would be a priority processing task kicked off by crossing the barrier threshold.
Another reason to avoid Windows.
Interviews didn't get tough for me until I got closer to 50. Unless it was a c-level or management job they were almost impossible.
So I bailed on tech and started my own business. Less money, but far less stress and now customers are kissing my ass for a change.
We still have the biggest army so we rewl the internets machine!
For reminding me about another great thing about being out of IT. That gut wrenching feeling when you get a call at 5am with someone shrieking the site has been hacked and there's an investor meeting that morning, hair on fire blah, blah, blah. Followed by the subtle insinuations that it was something to do with your code. The developers pointing fingers at the networking people, the networking people acting like the passive-aggressive beat dogs and biting back.
Changing careers was the best move I ever made, next to going independent. What a relief.
How else could they track them if their ISP wasn't cooperating?
I left programming and switched to running my own business as a freelance writer. You couldn't get me back into programming at gunpoint. I make more money, my customers treat me better, the hours are easier, and there's a ton more work.
Programming sucks massive donkey balls as a career, the difference is quite amazing. I can make more on an hourly basis writing than I ever could as programmer, way more. And my break room has a pool, jacuzzi, and a tiki bar with a frozen margarita machine.
One thing programming did teach me was how to type like the wind. I can type rings around other writers. Maybe you could make the case that thinking logically about a program structure made me a better writer.
The interesting question is whether writing is such a great career, or if it just sucks so much less than programming that it feels marvelous by comparison?
No kidding. I was a software engineer for almost a decade and got some bizarre interview questions with no connection to any relevant problem I had to solve in nearly 10 years of writing apps. What was bizarre is, most of the time, the problems had no connection to anything the company did, either. Nothing about logistics, data import, connecting to a web service, or setting up batch jobs, none of the skills you need every day.
The worst offenders are the third party testing companies which seem to specialize in obscurity.
I switched to freelance writing. It pays better, it's age proof, there's no commuting, no dipshit third party testing companies to slog through, and I don't work for idiots.
they still rubber-stamped the PATRIOT Act and only made TSA more heinous.
And if they hadn't the Republicans would have been running wall-to-wall commercials about how they were leaving the US vulnerable to attack. Fox News would have made it headline for weeks.
You cause the problems and then blame the other side for the results. That's quite a racket you got there.
Leftists want to test the public's submissiveness to government intrusion
ROFL! Which leftist was that who first proposed TSA? It was that famous lefty George Bush.
Using terms like that make you sound like some mid-60's Fox News watcher who tunes into Glenn Beck's radio show on the way to Branson, MO.
Half the people they work for won't appreciate them, the other half will be sitting around thinking of ways to outsource them. You'll be pretty much done with your career by the time you're 45 and get replaced by people who speak English with difficulty on an H1-B visa.
You'll also be scoffed at by younger contemporaries who will suggest that if you had kept your skills current, you'd still have a job. That while listening to employers gripe in the media about not be able to find qualified applicants.
Why are they picking on Google instead of someplace like, for instance, Koch Industries? Or News Corp? Or any of the other big companies pulling the infamous Double Dutch accounting tricks?
There are no Best Buy or call center jobs. People would be grateful to have even that crap work.
What country do you live in?