It depends upon the project - if it's fun and pays well, work it with the appropriate communications to management. If you don't think it's worth it and management won't support you, start looking.
The moral of the story is: Do your absolute best and, if money is more important in your company than politics, you will be rewarded.
He knows he got screwed in his case, as politics were more important in his company. I can relate to his position, and am sorry to say that I have yet to see a company that doesn't have politics play an important role. You must be willing to play politics in addition to being productive, or you will get used and tossed.
They're careful enough in hospitals to only give you enough morphine to take the immediate edge off the pain. They also won't give it to you for very long unless you're an ICU patient. Then you get "lesser" pain meds, which they seem a whole lot more likely to give you lots of. Everyone I know always has leftovers, we even took a bunch of bottles to a pharmaceutical dump to prevent them from getting into the general environment.
The de-wormer is necessary. The stool sample, after the first clear one, provided you're not on a farm or next to wilderness, can be your last. What you lose is the ability to have the de-wormer company pay for your pet's care, should they get worms, as there's some kind of warranty. (Got that from my vet, I think we've only done stool samples when the dogs were sick, which we've only done once in the past 5 years, maybe more)
All that aside, my old dog does have arthritis, and takes Tramedol as needed. I see a definite improvement within a half hour or so after giving her a pill. I've also tried without giving her a pill to see if she would improve, and she has not. Since her arthritis varies with the weather and her daily health, she's not on a regularly scheduled regimen. It appears from observation, at least, that Tramedol does alleviate some arthritis pain. Probably much like some arthiritis / pain meds help humans, but not all are helped by the same drugs.
Sad to say I haven't seen one story of a suicidal pilot that was stopped. And several of those incidents that are recorded at least one had pilots fighting for control of the plane and failed.
It's worth nothing that reinforced cockpit doors appear to have caused at least one plane crash where the pilot decided to commit suicide and take the rest of the passengers along for the ride.
Only one incident that I know of: LAM Mozambique. Since there are quite a few other recorded pilot suicides, I'd posit the door isn't the cause. The pilot can always just do a full powered dive, door or no door.... no one's going to stop them at that point.
Note that passengers beating up wannabe hijackers is greatly enhanced by not being able to get into the cockpit...
This exactly. Reinforced cockpit doors, not a new thing since El Al instituted them decades ago would probably alone have stopped 9/11 all by themselves. But it was "too expensive" and airlines didn't want them or the regulations regarding their use.
I look forward to a cure for sleep, and a cure for meals.
While I realize that some find the activity quite enjoyable, like a little oasis of peace from the usual busy day, I for one would add "a cure for having to go potty" to that list.
The entire reason to leave FB is because it isn't trustworthy, so why would you use it as an identity provider? I guess I should just hand the convicted bank robber my wallet to hold too?
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You're incorrect. The fact that the author fails to write a coherent article is the reason I chose not to read the rest of the drivel (sorry, thoroughly analyzed and supported highly vaunted academic paper), much like I choose not to listen to Bill O'Reilly. Why waste my time? Now academic papers on cellular biology related to how we can repair genes in defective cells are interesting (to me), or perhaps stories on medical care from the 18th century, or Mark Twain's auto-biography or Albert Einstein's biography.
The original task manager showed memory and cpu usage, along with a few other details and allowed you to kill processes. What more do you need in a task manager? Adding full monitoring eats up more resources, has more areas for things to go wrong, and may prevent you from loading that crucial app when things do go wrong. In previous windows versions prior to Vista at least, Task Manager was a relatively stable rock steady app that would work and could be accessed even if the rest of the system was largely unresponsive. This is hypothetical of course, as I doubt I'll see a W8+ system personally in my future. Everything around me is either locked into W7 or before, or has migrated to Linux or Macs. There is no interest in W8+ anywhere in the circle of people I know, with several having reverted back to W7 when they did get W8+.
you should be able to sledgehammer Win8 into shape by
You assume I have any desire to do that. I find even W7 terrible to use, because of the large sets of changes from XP -> W7 I skipped Vista like everyone else, and W7 / Ribbon Office was enough to have me move off windows entirely, helped partially by the huge demographic shift in internet use via mobile that pretty much destroyed the Windows/Office hegemony in just a couple of years. It was way overdue IMNSHO.
As a general rule, the US is incredibly protectionist at everything. There's an awful lot of "I won't do anything that will jeopardise US jobs" in US politics, and because the US is a big market, there's an awful lot of inward looking going on
Just look at H1-Bs. The only thing the US is incredibly protectionist at is guarding and increasing wealth.
According to the latest genetic therapy news, it appears that bionic eyes may be a much smaller segment of the population than you imply.
And yes, you are currently being told how to use your biological eyes and memory. You are prevented from recreating or copying copyrighted works, whether by hand, mechanically, or digitally, are you not? So expect your digital memory to be wiped upon leaving the show.
Behind the scenes, Microsoft is likely already fixing what sucks about Windows 8, including bringing the Start Menu back. After the release of next Windows, this little (extremely expensive) Win8 mistake can be swept under the rug just like ME and Vista.
Microsoft has already spent 2 years working on fixing W8 - you got W8.1.... not much of an improvement. It's not just about the start button. The random reorganization of menu structures forcing new training on users and admins is not considered worthwhile and is probably MS's biggest obstacle to overcome. Had the menu structures stayed the same, upgrading would have been a minor concern (both OS and applications such as Office). Office's changes were so great it was easier to move to another application than deal with the new ribbon Office, much less O360 or whatever the current "you will love the cloud" version is.
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Then the essay fails in 100,000 words to say what I said in 40. Or, tl;dr. It failed to make the point in the first 4 paragraphs or the last 4, skimming the in between 50 or so just showed more driveling opining evident in the first couple of paragraphs. As a writer, the author failed. As an academic author, perhaps this relates to success, but only within the small secular group that would care to continually prattle around the topic about something that is already agreed to in 40 words.
A) novice positions are what are being sent overseas. Working a non-degreed job is not a "novice" job
B) Yes, to become a good experienced EE, or any other degreed position, usually involves working at a novice level, or doing novice level tasks at some point.
These have been my consistent core position throughout this thread. You've been floundering around attempting to justify a "superiority" complex or something on today's grads, in that they won't take a manual (non-degreed) labor job as an entrance to higher positions. If that's all that's available, why would I get a degree? After all, by the time I would be elevated to the position desired, I'd already be making as much or possibly more than the "novice" degreed position. You should note that not all degreed people get those desired positions, as a degree does not equal competence for a particular type of job. They very well may fall back on the ability to work some of those lower level jobs you mentioned.
FYI, Your personal anecdote has little bearing on this situation, as would mine. For example, I had no intention of working in anything related to construction, even though a large percentage of my degree type did or wound up there, or even somewhere outside their degree entirely, like car salesmen.
Dells are notorious for battery life. I easily went through a Dell battery a year, and at best got half of their stated battery life. I've seen others have issues with keyboards and screens, but I tend to agree with you that those items are more likely to be user faults than manufacturer faults after the first month or so of use. For instance, I've seen one MBP with a broken hinge personally, which shocked me, because I've dropped a few in the past myself including Apple machines (it happens when you move your laptop around daily and/or travel with them despite your best intentions) and the worst I ever did was crack the plastic base on a Dell or IBM or inflict a minor scratch / dent on the MBPs. I suppose they could just be very unlucky, but given their other issues, it's a stretch to give them the benefit of the doubt, especially when the reason given was "it slipped out of my hands as I picked it up from the table".
I would agree that regarding the GPU failures, it's Apple / AMD's fault. The discrete graphics cards are known hot runners, whether laptop or desktop, and I've always questioned manufacturer's numbers since Ars and company seem to never get those "lower" numbers that they post for heat. It's either AMD's fault for supplying sub-standard chips during the production run, or Apple for not being conservative enough on heat dissipation with the eventual degrading of forced air cooling due to dust etc. Since all of the cases concern AMD chipsets, I'd wager that AMD is probably more to blame here for faulty chips or overly optimistic numbers, otherwise you'd see similar issues with NVidia chips, as Apple routinely appears to switch between the two.
Awesome that it still works, but I'm talking about using it as a daily computer, not a server locked in a closet. Those won't fail nearly as quickly because no mechanical items are used (other than the HD). I'm still using the 2009 for development. This means I use at at least several times a week, both with and without being plugged in. The battery is still good for 4-5 hours. The 2006 is used daily for personal email and web browsing, etc. The keys are starting to get worn on both, but everything still works.
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Or eat a couple of poppyseed bread items and then go in for your "highly accurate" test...
This is the NSA's wet dream come true. There is no "potential" for abuse, it's a given. The only question is who all will abuse it?
It depends upon the project - if it's fun and pays well, work it with the appropriate communications to management. If you don't think it's worth it and management won't support you, start looking.
The moral of the story is: Do your absolute best and, if money is more important in your company than politics, you will be rewarded.
He knows he got screwed in his case, as politics were more important in his company. I can relate to his position, and am sorry to say that I have yet to see a company that doesn't have politics play an important role. You must be willing to play politics in addition to being productive, or you will get used and tossed.
Then you're going to love this story
They're careful enough in hospitals to only give you enough morphine to take the immediate edge off the pain. They also won't give it to you for very long unless you're an ICU patient. Then you get "lesser" pain meds, which they seem a whole lot more likely to give you lots of. Everyone I know always has leftovers, we even took a bunch of bottles to a pharmaceutical dump to prevent them from getting into the general environment.
The de-wormer is necessary. The stool sample, after the first clear one, provided you're not on a farm or next to wilderness, can be your last. What you lose is the ability to have the de-wormer company pay for your pet's care, should they get worms, as there's some kind of warranty. (Got that from my vet, I think we've only done stool samples when the dogs were sick, which we've only done once in the past 5 years, maybe more)
All that aside, my old dog does have arthritis, and takes Tramedol as needed. I see a definite improvement within a half hour or so after giving her a pill. I've also tried without giving her a pill to see if she would improve, and she has not. Since her arthritis varies with the weather and her daily health, she's not on a regularly scheduled regimen. It appears from observation, at least, that Tramedol does alleviate some arthritis pain. Probably much like some arthiritis / pain meds help humans, but not all are helped by the same drugs.
Sad to say I haven't seen one story of a suicidal pilot that was stopped. And several of those incidents that are recorded at least one had pilots fighting for control of the plane and failed.
It's worth nothing that reinforced cockpit doors appear to have caused at least one plane crash where the pilot decided to commit suicide and take the rest of the passengers along for the ride.
Only one incident that I know of: LAM Mozambique. Since there are quite a few other recorded pilot suicides, I'd posit the door isn't the cause. The pilot can always just do a full powered dive, door or no door.... no one's going to stop them at that point.
Note that passengers beating up wannabe hijackers is greatly enhanced by not being able to get into the cockpit...
This exactly. Reinforced cockpit doors, not a new thing since El Al instituted them decades ago would probably alone have stopped 9/11 all by themselves. But it was "too expensive" and airlines didn't want them or the regulations regarding their use.
Wow, a leak about security and privacy without Snowden?
While I realize that some find the activity quite enjoyable, like a little oasis of peace from the usual busy day, I for one would add "a cure for having to go potty" to that list.
We have that cure already: death.
The entire reason to leave FB is because it isn't trustworthy, so why would you use it as an identity provider? I guess I should just hand the convicted bank robber my wallet to hold too?
You're incorrect. The fact that the author fails to write a coherent article is the reason I chose not to read the rest of the drivel (sorry, thoroughly analyzed and supported highly vaunted academic paper), much like I choose not to listen to Bill O'Reilly. Why waste my time? Now academic papers on cellular biology related to how we can repair genes in defective cells are interesting (to me), or perhaps stories on medical care from the 18th century, or Mark Twain's auto-biography or Albert Einstein's biography.
The original task manager showed memory and cpu usage, along with a few other details and allowed you to kill processes. What more do you need in a task manager? Adding full monitoring eats up more resources, has more areas for things to go wrong, and may prevent you from loading that crucial app when things do go wrong. In previous windows versions prior to Vista at least, Task Manager was a relatively stable rock steady app that would work and could be accessed even if the rest of the system was largely unresponsive. This is hypothetical of course, as I doubt I'll see a W8+ system personally in my future. Everything around me is either locked into W7 or before, or has migrated to Linux or Macs. There is no interest in W8+ anywhere in the circle of people I know, with several having reverted back to W7 when they did get W8+.
you should be able to sledgehammer Win8 into shape by
You assume I have any desire to do that. I find even W7 terrible to use, because of the large sets of changes from XP -> W7 I skipped Vista like everyone else, and W7 / Ribbon Office was enough to have me move off windows entirely, helped partially by the huge demographic shift in internet use via mobile that pretty much destroyed the Windows/Office hegemony in just a couple of years. It was way overdue IMNSHO.
As a general rule, the US is incredibly protectionist at everything. There's an awful lot of "I won't do anything that will jeopardise US jobs" in US politics, and because the US is a big market, there's an awful lot of inward looking going on
Just look at H1-Bs. The only thing the US is incredibly protectionist at is guarding and increasing wealth.
According to the latest genetic therapy news, it appears that bionic eyes may be a much smaller segment of the population than you imply.
And yes, you are currently being told how to use your biological eyes and memory. You are prevented from recreating or copying copyrighted works, whether by hand, mechanically, or digitally, are you not? So expect your digital memory to be wiped upon leaving the show.
post empty pro-Windows 8 content.
Isn't all pro W8 content empty?
Behind the scenes, Microsoft is likely already fixing what sucks about Windows 8, including bringing the Start Menu back. After the release of next Windows, this little (extremely expensive) Win8 mistake can be swept under the rug just like ME and Vista.
Microsoft has already spent 2 years working on fixing W8 - you got W8.1.... not much of an improvement. It's not just about the start button. The random reorganization of menu structures forcing new training on users and admins is not considered worthwhile and is probably MS's biggest obstacle to overcome. Had the menu structures stayed the same, upgrading would have been a minor concern (both OS and applications such as Office). Office's changes were so great it was easier to move to another application than deal with the new ribbon Office, much less O360 or whatever the current "you will love the cloud" version is.
Then the essay fails in 100,000 words to say what I said in 40. Or, tl;dr. It failed to make the point in the first 4 paragraphs or the last 4, skimming the in between 50 or so just showed more driveling opining evident in the first couple of paragraphs. As a writer, the author failed. As an academic author, perhaps this relates to success, but only within the small secular group that would care to continually prattle around the topic about something that is already agreed to in 40 words.
Bonus for steampunk ;).
Mine, except for some key and hand position wear and a few scuffs, look almost indistinguishable from 1 or 2 year old laptops.
A) novice positions are what are being sent overseas. Working a non-degreed job is not a "novice" job
B) Yes, to become a good experienced EE, or any other degreed position, usually involves working at a novice level, or doing novice level tasks at some point.
These have been my consistent core position throughout this thread. You've been floundering around attempting to justify a "superiority" complex or something on today's grads, in that they won't take a manual (non-degreed) labor job as an entrance to higher positions. If that's all that's available, why would I get a degree? After all, by the time I would be elevated to the position desired, I'd already be making as much or possibly more than the "novice" degreed position. You should note that not all degreed people get those desired positions, as a degree does not equal competence for a particular type of job. They very well may fall back on the ability to work some of those lower level jobs you mentioned.
FYI, Your personal anecdote has little bearing on this situation, as would mine. For example, I had no intention of working in anything related to construction, even though a large percentage of my degree type did or wound up there, or even somewhere outside their degree entirely, like car salesmen.
Dells are notorious for battery life. I easily went through a Dell battery a year, and at best got half of their stated battery life. I've seen others have issues with keyboards and screens, but I tend to agree with you that those items are more likely to be user faults than manufacturer faults after the first month or so of use. For instance, I've seen one MBP with a broken hinge personally, which shocked me, because I've dropped a few in the past myself including Apple machines (it happens when you move your laptop around daily and/or travel with them despite your best intentions) and the worst I ever did was crack the plastic base on a Dell or IBM or inflict a minor scratch / dent on the MBPs. I suppose they could just be very unlucky, but given their other issues, it's a stretch to give them the benefit of the doubt, especially when the reason given was "it slipped out of my hands as I picked it up from the table".
I would agree that regarding the GPU failures, it's Apple / AMD's fault. The discrete graphics cards are known hot runners, whether laptop or desktop, and I've always questioned manufacturer's numbers since Ars and company seem to never get those "lower" numbers that they post for heat. It's either AMD's fault for supplying sub-standard chips during the production run, or Apple for not being conservative enough on heat dissipation with the eventual degrading of forced air cooling due to dust etc. Since all of the cases concern AMD chipsets, I'd wager that AMD is probably more to blame here for faulty chips or overly optimistic numbers, otherwise you'd see similar issues with NVidia chips, as Apple routinely appears to switch between the two.
Awesome that it still works, but I'm talking about using it as a daily computer, not a server locked in a closet. Those won't fail nearly as quickly because no mechanical items are used (other than the HD). I'm still using the 2009 for development. This means I use at at least several times a week, both with and without being plugged in. The battery is still good for 4-5 hours. The 2006 is used daily for personal email and web browsing, etc. The keys are starting to get worn on both, but everything still works.