You must know the difference between "guy who gets a 1099, has a fixed-length contract because he's not an employee of the company, and thus can be fired on a whim" and "guy who gets a W-2 because he's actually an employee, and thus requires lots of HR paperwork to be fired".
You can't tell the difference between "throwing shit" and "jaded caution".
(Don't even try to assert that you know what I "really" meant. I know what I meant a hell of a lot more that some/. weirdo who knows nothing about me.)
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The problem is, when you eventually do get laid off (no employer survives forever), you've got nothing.
Like those guys who worked for UCal-SF who thought their jobs were secure until replaced by Indians. I do understand.
For now, though, with my medical condition and ability to telecommute, I'm more than satisfied to still be working for the same company since 1994.
Oh, really?
Sure.
Please elaborate.
You must know the difference between "guy who gets a 1099, has a fixed-length contract because he's not an employee of the company, and thus can be fired on a whim" and "guy who gets a W-2 because he's actually an employee, and thus requires lots of HR paperwork to be fired".
There's a difference between "short-term contractor" and "job-hopping employee".
I bet these people are well under age 35.
Aren't you curious how people at other companies do things?
Not enough to give up my 6 weeks of vacation, institutional memory and senior status as "He Who Knows".
I bet you're also one of the 3% that expresses fear at least once a week at losing your job to a robot.
Where does this research fall on the Munroe Scale?
https://xkcd.com/678/
Hah. Where's the energy storage for those 4 hungry fans?
Caligula allegedly made his horse a Senator, but I've found no stories that a Pope married a horse.
If you can't figure that out, there's no sense "conversing" with you anymore.
Interesting. I've only ever used DLT & SDLT (on DEC/Compaq/HP systems).
This is no zero point energy scam or similar that turns up on this site from time to time.
Eyeroll. Shall I list for you 42 articles from /. about battery breakthroughs that haven't made it out of the lab? (No? I'll do it anyway.)
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/02/13/1923200/researchers-working-on-liquid-battery-that-could-last-for-over-10-years
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/01/31/209246/researcher-develops-explosion-proof-lithium-metal-battery-with-2x-power-of-lithium-ion
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/01/09/2034221/next-gen-samsung-ev-battery-gets-300-miles-of-range-from-20-minute-charge
https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/11/25/1937248/toyotas-battery-breakthrough-can-lead-to-more-range-longer-life
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/11/23/2255256/scientists-create-battery-that-charges-in-seconds-and-lasts-for-days
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/11/02/2219234/researchers-make-a-high-performance-battery-from-junkyard-scraps
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/08/17/2335227/solid-state-battery-could-extinguish-fire-risks
https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/04/22/1551209/researchers-accidentally-make-batteries-that-could-last-a-lifetime
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/03/04/2228252/scientists-have-created-batteries-using-carbon-dioxide-from-atmosphere
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/02/27/177251/new-super-battery-energy-storage-breakthrough-aims-at-54-per-kwh
https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/23/1920254/cheap-high-performance-green-battery-runs-on-rotten-apples
https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/16/215200/pollen-based-electrodes-could-boost-battery-storage
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/07/28/1427259/stanford-team-creates-stable-lithium-anode-using-honeycomb-film
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/05/14/0233227/new-battery-tech-from-japan-could-supercharge-evs
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/01/09/2221227/metal-free-rhubarb-battery-could-store-renewable-grid-energy
at least a DLT/SDLT tape can be erased and reused
LTO can't????
But those had already been itemized in her list of no-goodniks.
Who is Zeljka Zorz to think that animals are our brothers?
Doesn't this loon know that they're our cousins? Very, very, distant cousins.
What????
But there's no paper tape from the 1600s... :)
Also, I've got paperback books from the 1980s that are brown & brittle.
Someone with a 5-digit ID should have seen paper turning brown & brittle.
usually unreadable after 6 to 12 months or less
What kind of crappy tapes do you you use? We've restored DLT tapes after 7 years in Iron Mountain.
You obviously know nothing of enterprise tape drives.
storage v noses on earth
Eh?
Sigh. Obviously you can't convince me of your alleged rightness, and I obviously can't convince you how wrong you are...
You can't tell the difference between "throwing shit" and "jaded caution".
(Don't even try to assert that you know what I "really" meant. I know what I meant a hell of a lot more that some /. weirdo who knows nothing about me.)
You go on hyping each new laboratory discovery as game changing, and I'll wait for them to actually go into production.
cargo cult luddite that appears to assume that every successful product is born perfect
I see now. You assume that I think "will it be?" is the same as "it'll never be!" It's just as obvious that you'll never believe otherwise.